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Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Lyrics - Artist : Decemberists, The
[Soldier:]
Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet A sweetheart left behind [Girl:] Far from the hills and 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 upon your bones so dry 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 [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 O 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 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 [Soldier:] Stems and bones and stone walls too Could keep me from you This skein of skin is all too few To keep me from you [Soldier and Girl:] But O 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 |
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