[00:00.00] 作词 : Traditional
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[00:51.35]He was just a blue-eyed boston boy,
[00:58.37]His voice was low with pain.
[01:08.38]i'll do your bidding, comrade mine,
[01:12.49]If i ride back again.
[01:18.41]But if you ride back and i am left,
[01:22.62]You'll do as much for me,
[01:29.52]Mother, you know, must hear the news,
[01:36.45]So write to her tenderly.
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[01:52.77]she's waiting at home like a patient saint,
[02:00.84]Her fond face pale with woe.
[02:06.70]Her heart will be broken when i am gone,
[02:14.07]I'll see her soon, i know.
[02:20.44]Just then the order came to charge,
[02:24.50]For an instance hand touched hand.
[02:31.83]They said, ''aye,'' and away they rode,
[02:41.11]That brave and devoted band.
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[02:55.49]Straight was the track to the top of the hill,
[03:09.10]The rebels they shot and shelled,
[03:09.50]Plowed furrows of death through the toiling ranks,
[03:16.10]And guarded them as they fell.
[03:22.36]There soon came a horrible dying yell
[03:27.89]From heights that they could not gain,
[03:34.67]And those whom doom and death had spared
[03:40.56]Rode slowly back again.
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[04:00.03]But among the dead that were left on the hill
[04:06.46]Was the boy with the curly hair.
[04:13.88]The tall dark man who rode by his side
[04:20.23]Lay dead beside him there.
[04:26.34]There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl
[04:30.98]The words that her lover had said.
[04:37.22]Momma, you know, awaits the news,
[04:44.55]And she'll only know he's dead.