Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then), artist - The Decemberists. Album song The Crane Wife, in the genre ИндиDate of issue: 08.12.2016
Record label: Capitol
Song language: English
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) |
| Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet |
| A sweetheart left behind |
| Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas |
| That’s where my true love lies |
| Look for me when the sun-bright swallow |
| Sings upon the birch bough high |
| But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils |
| All a’chew upon your bones so dry |
| But when the sun breaks |
| To no more bulletin battle-cry |
| 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 |
| When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee |
| Made a seam to hem me in There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless |
| Got my heart right pierced by a pin |
| But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas |
| All the bellies and the bones and the bile |
| Though I lingered here with the blankets barren |
| And my own belly big with child |
| But when the sun breaks |
| To no more bulletin battle-cry |
| 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 |
| Stems and bones and stone walls too |
| Could keep me from you |
| Scaly skin is all too few |
| To keep me from you |
| But oh 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 |