Some had on the Rebel grey, Some the Union blue,
They were fathers sons and brothers, men like me and you
Engaged in heavy battle, till there came that cloudy draw,
When silence took the battlefield men just stood in awe

Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lines,
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
Some say it was God's spirit lookin' o'er the bloody sod,
But that rainbow mist that filled the sky, was the tears of God

Both sides read his Holy Word and believed it in thier hearts,
But the common ground He'd blessed them with had now been torn apart
Covered by the blood they she'd so many lost their lives,
The fight on that Virginia hill was enough to make Him cry

Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lines,
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
Some say it was God's spirit looking o'er the bloody sod,
But the rainbow mist that filled the sky, was the tears of God

Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lines,
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
Some say it was God's spirit lookin o'er the bloody sod,
But the Rainbow mist that filled the sky, was the tears of God