Yankee Bayonet (i Will Be Home Then) Lyrics - The Crane Wife - Decemberists

Soldier: Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet 

A sweetheart left behind 

Girl: Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas 

That's where my true love lies 

Soldier: Look for me when the sun-bright swallow 

Sings upon the birch bough high 

Girl: But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils 

All a'chew on your bones so dry 

Both: But when the sun breaks 

To no more bullets in Battle Creek 

Then will you make a grave 

For I will be home then 

I will be home then 

I will be home then 

I will be home then 

Then 

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Girl: When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee 

Made a seam to hem me in 

Soldier: There at the fair, when our eyes caught careless 

Got my heart right pierced by a pin 

Soldier: But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas 

All the bellies and the bones and the bile? 

Girl: No, I lingered here with the blankets barren 

And my own belly big with child 

Both: But when the sun breaks 

To no more bullets in Battle Creek 

Then will you make a grave 

For I will be home then 

I will be home then 

I will be home then 

I will be home then 

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Soldier: Stems and bones and stone walls too 

Both: Keep me from you 

Soldier: This skein of skin is all too few 

Both: To keep me from you 

Both: But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted 

Though our skin may not touch skin 

Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow 

I will come on the breath of the wind