Lyrics: Yankee Bayonet (i Will Be Home Then)
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The Crane Wife
Song: Yankee Bayonet (i Will Be Home Then)
Released: 2006
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Yankee Bayonet (i Will Be Home Then) lyrics
Soldier: heart carved tree trunk, yankee bayonet
A sweetheart left behind
Girl: far from the hills of the sea-swelled carolinas
That's where my true love lies
Soldier: look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bow high
Girl: but you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
All a-chew on your bones so dry
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in battle creek
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
Girl: when i was a girl how the hills of oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
Soldier: there at the fair when our eyes caught, careless,
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
Soldier: but o did you see all the dead of manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile?
Girl: no, i lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in battle creek
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
Soldier: and stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
This skein of skin is all too few
To keep me from you
Solider and girl: but o 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
A sweetheart left behind
Girl: far from the hills of the sea-swelled carolinas
That's where my true love lies
Soldier: look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bow high
Girl: but you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
All a-chew on your bones so dry
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in battle creek
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
Girl: when i was a girl how the hills of oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
Soldier: there at the fair when our eyes caught, careless,
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
Soldier: but o did you see all the dead of manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile?
Girl: no, i lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in battle creek
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
Soldier: and stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
This skein of skin is all too few
To keep me from you
Solider and girl: but o 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
Thanks to nadanie for these lyrics!
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