Misty River - Blue-eyed Boston Boy Lyrics
I?LL DO YOUR BIDDING, COMRADE MINE, IF I RIDE BACK AGAINBUT IF YOU RIDE BACK WHEN I AM DEAD YOU?LL DO AS MUCH FOR ME?MY MOTHER YOU KNOW MUST HEAR THE NEWS SO WRITE TO HER TENDERLYSHE?S WAITING AT HOME LIKE A PATIENT SAINT, HER FINE FACE PALE WITH WOEHER HEART WILL BE BROKEN WHEN I AM GONE, I?LL SEE HER SOON I KNOWJUST THEN THE ORDER CAME TO CHARGE FOR AN INSTANT HAND TOUCHED HANDTHEY ANSWERED ?AYE? THEN ON THEY RODE THAT BRAVE AND DEVOTED BANDSOLO: VERSESTRAIGHT WAY WAS THE COURSE TO THE TOP OF THE HILL, THE REBELS THEY SHOT & SHELLEDPLOWED FURROWS OF DEATH IN THE TOILING RANKS AND GUARDED TEHM AS THEY FELLTHERE SOON WAS A TERRIBLE DYING YELL, FROM THE HEIGHTS THEY COULD NOT GAINAND THOSE WHO DOOM AND DEATH HAD SPARED RODE SLOWLY BACK AGAINSOLO: VERSE & CHORUSBUT AMONG THE DEAD WHO WERE LEFT ON THE FIELD ?WAS THE BOY WITH THE CURLY HAIRAND THE TALL DARK MAN WHO FOUGHT BY HIS SIDE?LAY DEAD BESIDE HIM THERETHERE WAS NONE TO WRITE TO THE BLUE-EYED GIRL THE WORDS HER LOVER HAD SAIDWHILE MOTHER AT HOME IS AWAITING HER BOY SHE?LL ONLY KNOW HE?S DEADWHILE MOTHER AT HOME IS AWAITING HER BOY SHE?LL ONLY KNOW?.HE?S DEAD
