A D G D X 2 A D A A D G D A D G He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy D His voice was low with pain. A D G I'll do your bidding comrade mine, D If I ride back again. A D But if you ride back and I am left A You'll do as much for me. A D G Mother you know, must hear the news D So write to her tenderly. A D G D A D G She's waiting at home like a patient saint D Her fond face pale with woe. A D G Her heart will be broken when I am gone D I'll see her soon, I know A D Just then the order came to charge A For an instant hand touched hand A D G They said "Aye" and away they rode D That brave and devoted band. A D G D A D G Straight was the track to the top of the hill D The rebels they shot and shelled. A D G Plowed furrows of death through the toilling ranks D And guarded them as they fell A D There soon came a horrible dying yell A From heights that they could not gain A D G And those that doom and death had spared D Rode slowly back again. A D G D A D G But among the dead that were left on the hill D Was the boy with the curly hair A D G The tall dark man that rode by his side D Lay dead beside him there A D There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl A The words that her lover had said A D G Momma, you know, awaits the news D And she'll only know he's dead. A D G D X 2 A D A A D G D
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