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He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy 
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His voice was low with pain 
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I'll do your bidding comrade mine 
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If I ride back again 
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But if you ride back and I am left 
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You'll do as much for me 
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Mother you know must hear the news 
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So write to her tenderly 
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She's waiting at home like a patient saint 
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Her fond face pale with woe 
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Her heart will be broken when I am gone 
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I'll see her soon I know 
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Just then the order came to charge 
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For an instance hand touched hand 
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They said aye and away they rode 
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That brave and devoted band 
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Straight was the track to the top of the hill 
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The rebels they shot and shelled 
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Plowed furrows of death 
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Through the toiling ranks 
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And guarded them as they fell 
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There soon came a horrible dying yell 
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>From heights that they could not gain 
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And those who doom and death had spared 
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Rode slowly back again 
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But among the dead that were left on the hill 
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Was the boy with the curly hair 
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The tall dark man who rode by his side 
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Lay dead beside him there 
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There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl 
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The words that her lover had said 
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Momma you know awaits the news 
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And she'll only know he's dead