Two Soldiers Songtext

C

If I ride back again

G C

But if you ride back and I am left

G

You'll do as much for me

C F

Mother you know must hear the news

C G C F C

So write to her tenderly
G F

She's waiting at home like a patient saint

C

Her fond face pale with woe

G F

Her heart will be broken when I am gone

C

I'll see her soon I know

G C

Just then the order came to charge

G

For an instance hand touched hand

G F

They said aye and away they rode

C G C F C G C F C

That brave and devoted band

G F

Straight was the track to the top of the hill

C

The rebels they shot and shelled

G C

Plowed furrows of death

F

Through the toiling ranks

C

And guarded them as they fell

G C

There soon came a horrible dying yell

G

From heights that they could not gain

C F

And those who doom and death had spared

C G C F C G C F C

Rode slowly back again

G F

But among the dead that were left on the hill

C

Was the boy with the curly hair

G F

The tall dark man who rode by his side

C

Lay dead beside him there

G C

There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl

G

The words that her lover had said

C F

Momma you know awaits the news

F C

And she'll only know he's dead