Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Dying Soldier, artist - Carter Family. Album song Mountains and Valleys, in the genre КантриDate of issue: 27.08.2008
Record label: Black Cat
Song language: English
The Dying Soldier |
| France’s sun was slowly sinking o’er the hilltops far away |
| The land was in its beauty where the dying soldier lay |
| Tears were streaming down his face as he slowly raised his head |
| And these were the dying words he said |
| Oh, carry me back to old Tennessee |
| Let this be my last repose |
| Lay my feet beneath the lilacs |
| Lay my head beneath the rose |
| (Instrumental break) |
| Take this message to my mother for I know she’s old and gray |
| At home I know she’s waiting, looking for her boy some day |
| Oh, dear mother, I pulled through for my country and for you |
| And I’m dying for the red, white, and blue |
| Oh, carry me back to old Tennessee |
| Let this be my last repose |
| Lay my feet beneath the lilacs |
| Lay my head beneath the rose |
| (Instrumental break) |
| O’er the hills of Tennessee where the wild winds wander free |
| The little girl waiting there for me Tell her that the rose she gave me will be placed upon my grave |
| In memory of her soldier brave |
| Oh, carry me back to old Tennessee |
| Let this be my last repose |
| Lay my feet beneath the lilacs |
| Lay my head beneath the rose |