Passin' through passin' through Sometimes happy sometimes blue that's where I ran into you Tell the people that you saw me passin' through [ flute ] I shivered next to Washington one night at Valley Port Fightin' men suffer like they do Men will suffer men will fight even die for what is right Even though they know they're only passin' through Passin' through passin' through... [ banjo ] At the town of New Orleans the biggest fight I ever seen Ol' Hickory how you fight the way you do Had not the way you fight it's fightin' for the right I've so little time and I'm just passin' through Passin' through passin' through... [ trumpet ] I heard the ragin' cry remembered Alamo Santa Anna you met your Waterloo Now papa love not hate things to do it's gettin' late I've so little time and I'm just passin' through Passin' through passin' through... Tell the people that you saw me passin' through Tell the people that you saw me passin' through