Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Two Soldiers, artist - Ricky Skaggs.
Date of issue: 10.11.2013
Song language: English
Two Soldiers |
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 left, |
You’ll do as much for me, |
Mother, you know, must hear the news, |
So write to her tenderly. |
«She's waiting at home like a patient 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 instance hand touched hand. |
They said, «Aye,"and away they rode, |
That brave and devoted band. |
Straight was the track to the top of the hill, |
The rebels they shot and shelled, |
Plowed furrows of death through the toiling ranks, |
And guarded them as they fell. |
There soon came a horrible dying yell |
From heights that they could not gain, |
And those whom doom and death had spared |
Rode slowly back again. |
But among the dead that were left on the hill |
Was the boy with the curly hair. |
The tall dark man who rode by his side |
Lay dead beside him there. |
There’s no one to write to the blue-eyed girl |
The words that her lover had said. |
Momma, you know, awaits the news, |
And she’ll only know he’s dead. |