Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly. Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother, An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone. Play the dead march as you carry me along. Emmylou Harris Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics. Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me, I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong. I meant to ask you how to fix that car I always meant to ask you about the war And what you saw across a bridge too far Did it leave a scar (play the fife lowly) i just cannot stop asking why, always why running and running wandering and wondering no matter how many years fl Bang The Drum Slowly lyrics: I meant to ask you how to fix that car I always meant to ask you about the war And what you saw across a bridge too far Did it leave a … (play the fife lowly) i just cannot stop asking why, always why running and running wandering and wondering Lyrics to 'Bang The Drum Slowly' by Bane. But please not one word of the man who had killed me. Emmylou Harris - Bang the Drum Slowly Lyrics. Bane - Bang the Drum Slowly Lyrics. Bang The Drum Slowly lyrics performed by Emmylou Harris: (Emmylou Harris/Guy Clark) I meant to ask you how … Emmylou Harris Bang The Drum Slowly written by Guy Clark Emmylou Harris A D A I meant to ask you how to fix that car D A I always meant to ask you about the war F#m D A And what you saw across a bridge too far E Did it leave a scar A D A Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel D A Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal F#m D A And still you found the ground beneath your wheels … Lyrics to Bang the Drum Slowly by Emmylou Harris from the Willin' album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more!