Gettysburg Address© .First Published 2023

A song inspired by a visit to Gettysburg way back in 1976. The Bi-Centennial year for the USA. I visited at the insistence of my friend and fellow traveler, Michael. He was in the Army Reserve in our hometown Sydney, Australia.

Michael planned our trip itinerary so many historical military sites were naturally included.

Gettysburg, although I'd heard of it I doubt it would have been a must see for me save for Michael. It had a profound effect on me to this day.

When my friend in Perth Stoney Martin was asked by a friend in Texas to write a song with Texas mentioned in the lyrics. Stoney and I thought that the USA may be headed for another civil war and we both thought we could come up with an anti-war protest song about the Civil War. I set down some words in 2020 In the middle of the Covid madness.

Covid and Facebook restrictions took precedence over songwriting for us both.
Stoney concentrated on his own music as a retired professional musician. Meanwhile, I got out my, now old, Casio Keyboard and finally resolved to learn to play the piano.

I put writing and Wattpad aside for over two years to achieve my goal. No spare money for piano lessons meant replacing my time on Wattpad with time on Youtube until I could play at least one classical piece two-handed.

Last birthday I decided to come back to Wattpad and renew my interest in my HereAfter Series of books. I have established many friends on this platform in a short time. A few are poets and song writers. I hadn't thought of putting song lyrics on Wattpad but I saw what they were doing and thought why not?

Gettysburg Address is my first attempt at that. For the time being, it can be sung roughly to the tune of the American National Anthymn, The Star Spangled Banner, at least until Stoney gets interested again to write an original score or I become so proficient on the piano that I can write the music myself. Neither of which I would hold my breath for. Haha.