Two Solders Lyrics - Early 21st Century Blues - Cowboy Junkies

[Traditional] 

He was just a blue-eyed boston boy 

His voice was low with pain 

I'll do your bidding commrad mine 

If i ride back again 

But if you ride back and i am dead 

You'll do as much for me 

Mother, you know, must hear the news 

So write to her tenderly 

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She's a-waiting at home like a patient saint 

Her fallen face paled with woe 

Her heart would be broken when i am gone 

I'll see her soon, i know. 

Just then the order came to charge 

For an instant hand touched hand 

They sayed "aye" and away they rode 

That brave and devoted band 

Straight was the course to the top of the hill 

And the rebels they shot and shelled 

Plowed furroughs of death through the toiling ranks 

And guarded them as they fell 

There soon was a horrible dying yell 

From heights that they could not gain 

And those who doom and death had spared 

Rode slowly back again 

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But among the dead that were left on the hill 

Was the boy with curly hair 

The tall dark man who fought by his side 

Lay dead beside him there 

Well there was was no one to write to the blue-eyed girl 

The words that her lover had said 

While mother at home is awaiting her boy 

She'll only know he's dead 

She'll only know he's dead