"TAPS"

"TAPS"
 There's quite a list of bugle calls, for many different things.
 Yet none but one conveys the mood that "TAPS" so softly brings.
 Those notes would total twenty-four, a very simple music score,
 but oh it's haunting melody, would leave a lasting memory.
 When troops first heard those stirring notes, played for a fallen cannoneer,
 they felt emotion and were moved, and many even shed a tear.
 Played slowly in the key of C , it has a certain majesty.
 It makes one ponder and reflect, a time to pay our deep respect.
 The North and South had gone to war, because of slavery,
 Yet both would use this bugle call, on that they would agree.........