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He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy
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His voice was low with pain
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I'll do your bidding comrade mine
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If I ride back again
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But if you ride back and I am left
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You'll do as much for me
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Mother you know must hear the news
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So write to her tenderly
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She's waiting at home like a patient saint
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Her fond face pale with woe
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Her heart will be broken when I am gone
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I'll see her soon I know
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Just then the order came to charge
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For an instance hand touched hand
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They said aye and away they rode
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That brave and devoted band
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Straight was the track to the top of the hill
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The rebels they shot and shelled
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Plowed furrows of death
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Through the toiling ranks
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And guarded them as they fell
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There soon came a horrible dying yell
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>From heights that they could not gain
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And those who doom and death had spared
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Rode slowly back again
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But among the dead that were left on the hill
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Was the boy with the curly hair
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The tall dark man who rode by his side
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Lay dead beside him there
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There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl
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The words that her lover had said
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Momma you know awaits the news
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And she'll only know he's dead