ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TONIGHT The PICKET GUARD sing along song lyrics words text

All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight is a poem called The Picket Guard written in 1861 by Ms. E Beers and set to music in 1863 by John Hill Hewitt. Sing along song with words lyrics & text. “ALL quiet along the Potomac to-night!“ Except here and there a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. ’Tis nothing! a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost, only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight 2- All Quiet along the Potomac to-night! Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming; And their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, And the light of the camp-fires are gleaming. There’s only the sound of the lone sentry’s tread As he tramps from the rock to the fountain, And thinks of the two on the low trundle-bed, Far away in the cot on the mountain. All Quiet a