Ethel Lynn Beers: All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot — Ethel Lynn Beers

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Ethel Lynn Beers

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