The Decemberists, Laura Veirs - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) lyrics
[The Decemberists, Laura Veirs - Yankee Bayonet I Will Be Home Then lyrics]
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
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: And 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
Solider 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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