Well they gave me this old coat
Said it will keep you might warm
It will see you through the winter
It?s your by God uniform
So I wear it everyday
And I sleep in it at night
Now it?s twenty shade of grey
And the waist has shrunk too tight
And the bottoms caked and muddy
And the buttons are half gone
But just like you and me
This Old Grey Coat wears on.
And when I die in this grey coat
I?m gonna march though Heaven?s door
I?m gonna walk up to Saint Peter
And tell him, send me back for more
Cause I?ll be damn if I?ll just sit around
Why you boys win the war
Cause even, when I?m dead
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead
And every part of me keeps hangin? by a thread
Of This Old Grey Coat.
When I think of all the places
This old coat and me have been
Through the fat and lean and in between
In the weak through thick and thin
From the ballrooms down in Richmond
To the top of Mary?s Height
From Manasas to The Wilderness
And a hundred other fights
Now the collars torn and tattered
And the elbow?s wore clean through
But put me in a pinch
This Old Grey Coat will do.
And when I die in this grey coat
And when they come to bury me
They commenced a speak of fightin?
And singin?, Mirror Lord Thieves
Well be damn sure I ain?t just sleepin?
Cause I flat out guarantee
That even, when I?m dead
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead
That the toughest part of lives on in every shred
Of This Old Grey Coat.
Well you can, cut my throat
You can, sink my boat
But you can never stop This Old Grey Coat.
When my bones do toll
When that?s, all she wrote
I?ll fight on inside This Old Grey Coat.
And when I die in this grey coat
I?m gonna march though Heaven?s door
I?m gonna walk up to Saint Peter
And tell him, send me back for more
Cause I?ll be damn if I?ll just sit around
Why you boys win the war
Cause even, when I?m dead
Shot full of, Yankee?s lead
There ain?t nothin? that I?d rather wear instead
Than This Old Grey Coat.
This Old Grey Coat
I?ll go down
In This Old Grey Coat
This Old Grey Coat.