Two Soldiers

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens] He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy His voice was low with pain "I'll do your bidding, comrade mine If I ride back again" But if you ride back and I am dead You'll do as much for me My mother, you know, must hear the news So write to her tenderly She's praying at home like a waiting saint Her fond face pale with woe Her heart will 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 answered "aye," then on they rode That brave and devoted band [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens] Straight was the course to the top of the hill And the rebels, they shot and shelled Plowed furrows of death in the toiling ranks And guarded them as they fell There soon was a horrible dying yell From heights they could not gain And those who doom and death had spared Rode slowly back again But among the dead that were left on the field Was the boy with the curly hair The tall, dark man who fought by his side Lay dead beside him there But there was none to write to the blue-eyed girl The words her lover had said While mother at home is awaiting her boy She'll only know he's dead [Outro: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard] She'll only know he's dead