Lyrics to Bang the Drum Slowly by Emmylou Harris from the Willin' album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more! Emmylou Harris - Bang the Drum Slowly Lyrics. (play the fife lowly) i just cannot stop asking why, always why running and running wandering and wondering Bane - Bang the Drum Slowly Lyrics. But please not one word of the man who had killed me. 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 … Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother, An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone. Lyrics to 'Bang The Drum Slowly' by Bane. 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 Emmylou Harris Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics. Play the dead march as you carry me along. 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 … (play the fife lowly) i just cannot stop asking why, always why running and running wandering and wondering no matter how many years fl Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me, I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong. Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.