Testo di Antietam

everyone but me is sick can't breathe here, the air's too thick i can't stand but i can't drop can't save a man but i can't stop there's not enough of us to ever stem this tide the agony and filth is more than i can hide i mustn't speak of failure but it's filling my head and there's not enough beds for these stinking dead I can't stay, i can't stop can't save a man but i can't drop amputate and i pray always more casualties on the way i can't stop, i can't cry i'm only seventeen and i don't know why why? why? why? do what i can but they die anyway the rebels give us more every night and day a woman serves her country by being a nurse i'm an angel bathed in blood and it's a god damned curse cauterize the wounds and lay 'em up in a cot the biggest men are laid to waste with one lead shot please mister lincoln call this war to an end general lee's getting closer and we have no more men and i can't stay, i can't stop can't save a man but i can't drop amputate and i pray always more casualties on the way i can't stop, i can't cry i'm only seventeen and i don't know why why? why? why?