FEATURED ARTIST - JILLIAN LAGASSE

We have received several emails asking which song on this CD was sung by Jillian Lagasse. This has prompted us to start doing a series of monthly profiles about the various vocalists who have helped us out by singing on this project.

Jillian was living and studying in San Diego in 2004. She became friends with my sister in law, who told me that Jillian had a great voice and was a singer. We listened to a demo CD she had and we were blown away by her voice. We asked Jillian if she would want to do a song for the Professor Presley CD and she said she’d be happy to do it.

Jillian showed up at Earthling studios and nailed the song in just a few takes. What a pro! Thanks again to Jillian, we hope you are doing well in England.

You can listen to samples of or download this song on Apple I Tunes

Or on msnmusic at http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=41914623

Lyrics to “The Civil War”

State’s rights, slavery, federal government (power), economy,

These issues and maybe more, led our country into Civil War,

North and South once were the same, then had Presidents with different names,

Davis led the Confederates, when chosen Lincoln said,

“In your hands, my dissatisfied countrymen, and not mine, rests the momentous issue of civil war” Abraham Lincoln

Fort Sumter First, then Bull Run, four long years (un)til the war was won,

Southerners felt their cause was just, preserve our way of life’s a must,

Rebels recalled in their defense, the Declaration of Independence,

Lincoln and the North they said ‘no, we’ll preserve the Union you cannot go,’

“You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” Abraham Lincoln

Blockade the coast, cut off their trade, Southern plantations won’t get paid,

The Union thought it could be won, attack the rebels in Richmond,

The Southerners had a simple plan, stay at home defend our land,

For our cotton we won’t be denied, European help and supplies.

“Whatever may be the result of the contest, I foresee that the country will have to go through a terrible ordeal” Confederate General Robert E. Lee

Lincoln waited (un)til the time was right, expanding the goals of the fight,

After the victory at Antietam, he felt that they could beat (th)em,

In 62 he announced to the nation, the Emancipation Proclamation,

Free the slaves that was the plan, of any state still in Rebel hands.

“all persons held as slaves within any state (in) rebellion against the United States , shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Abraham Lincoln

Grant at Vicksburg tasted victory, Gettysburg went bad for Lee,

Lincoln decided Grant was his man, and put the army under his command,

The North now fought with total war, Southern power was no more,

At the cemetery in Gettysburg, Lincoln spoke these amazing words,

“the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth” Abraham Lincoln

in (18)64 Lincoln was reelected, to many voters this was not expected,

the war was ending the time had come, Gen Lee could no longer run,

trapped by Grant in a Virginia town, Lee told his men to put their guns down,

the end finally had arrived, over 600,000 men had died.

“The war is over, the Rebels are our country men again” Gen. Ulysses S. Grant