Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A popular song from 1924
Words by Ballard MacDonald
Music by James F. Hanley
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/at-the-end-of-the-road
Lyrics
I’m just as weary, as weary can be
Little old Main Street, you’d look good to me
I didn’t know when I told you goodbye
How I would miss you, I’m just learning why
CHORUS
At the end of the road
The long, dusty road
There’s peace, there’s contentment and rest
And a cottage of white
If memory serves me right
With a welcome from those I love best
I’m going back to Indiana
And I nevermore will roam
From the end of the road
The long dusty road
That leads to Home Sweet Home
2. Shadows are rising and through memory’s haze
Oh! what a picture appears to my gaze
Cool shady lanes where the summer breeze blows
Bidding me come to its heart and repose
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A popular song from 1924
Words by Ballard MacDonald
Music by James F. Hanley
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/at-the-end-of-the-road
Lyrics
I’m just as weary, as weary can be
Little old Main Street, you’d look good to me
I didn’t know when I told you goodbye
How I would miss you, I’m just learning why
CHORUS
At the end of the road
The long, dusty road
There’s peace, there’s contentment and rest
And a cottage of white
If memory serves me right
With a welcome from those I love best
I’m going back to Indiana
And I nevermore will roam
From the end of the road
The long dusty road
That leads to Home Sweet Home
2. Shadows are rising and through memory’s haze
Oh! what a picture appears to my gaze
Cool shady lanes where the summer breeze blows
Bidding me come to its heart and repose
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![Riding a Raid (1863)
An American Civil War song from 1863
Words: anonymous
Music: based on “Bonnie Dundee” an old Scotch air
Sung by Vancha March
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
https://www.sheetmusicsinger.com/riding-a-raid/
Lyrics
1. Tis old Stonewall the Rebel that leans on his sword:
“Now each cavalier that loves Honor and Right,
Let him follow the feather of Stuart to night!”
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
CHORUS
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle you blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
2. Now gallop now gallop to swim o[‘]er t[‘]e ford!
Old Stonewall, still watching, prays low to the Lord:
“Now Bye dear old Rebel! the river’s not wide,
And Mary-land’s light’s in her window to guide.”
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
3. There’s a man in a white house with blood on his mouth!
If there’s knaves in the North, there are braves in the South.
We are three thousand horses, and not one afraid;
We are three thousand sabres, and not one dull blade.
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
4. Then gallop, then gallop by ravines and rocks!
Who would bar us the way take his toll in hard knocks;
For with these points of steel, on the line of Penn,
We have made some fine strokes, and we make them again.
Then tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
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