InThe Hills of Shiloh Songtext
von Bobby Bare

(You know, every time there′s... every man written about the Civil war)
(They wrote about brother fighting brother and...)
(Father fighting son and...)
(Nobody has ever really written a song about the ones that stayed behind, you know, like the-the women that lost their men)
(And that's what this is about)

Have you seen Amanda Blaine in the hills of Shiloh?
Wandering through the morning rain in the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her at her door listening for the cannon roar
And the man who went to war from the hills of Shiloh?


Have you heard her mournful cries in the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her haunted eyes in the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her running down, searching through the sleepy town
In her yellowed wedding gown in the hills of Shiloh?

Have you seen her standing there in the hills of Shiloh?
Wind a-blowing through her hair in the hills of Shiloh?
Listening for the sound of guns, listening for the rolling drums
And the man who never comes to the hills of Shiloh?

Have you heard Amanda sing in the hills of Shiloh?
Whispering to her wedding ring in the hills of Shiloh?
Hear her humming soft and low, poor Amanda doesn′t know
'T was ended 40 years ago in the hills of Shiloh