Two years we've been fighting though it seems like a hundred Away to the south there's a home I onece knew Where mu loved ones are waiting for a word from the Captain That the battle has ended for the gray and the blue I left dear old Georgia on the first day of April The grass in the valley was just turning green I married my Sally just a week before leaving We now have a baby that I've never seen She wrote me a letter that told of our baby He's just like his daddy is the words that it said But thats been so long now that it seems like foever And Lord I'm so homesick I wish I were dead Atlanta is burning the horizon is flaming The thunder of cannons in the distance I hear I think of my Sally and the son that she gave me If I could just see her and the baby so dear A bullet has found me and the darkness is falling The pain is unreal and my body so weak The Captain is calling is but I cannot answer My thoughts wonder soughts wonder southland as go to sleep
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