Chuck Ragan – Call Out The Cavalry (Ukulele)

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Not another foot was stirring on the floor of the house

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except for my 'pa who'd been up for a while

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Seems he's headin' on after the bad word that came,

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of his brothers who marched but were left down all slain

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Please call out the cavalry

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Send them along

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For we need our daddy,

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and so does this farm

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Mama stays awake to pray,

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in a lonely straw bed

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and we rise before the sun

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with the work that he left

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He took what mama made him to feed him on his way

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he kissed all my brothers, my sisters, and me

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he held my poor mama, looked down and said, "Son,

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I'll be home soon, now hand me my coat and my gun."

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Please call out the cavalry

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Send them along

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For we need our daddy

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and so does this farm

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Mama stays awake to pray

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in a lonely straw bed

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and we rise before the sun

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with the work that he left

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It's been some days without him, but we've toiled away

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hang onto the cattle and the crops that we've laid

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mama sits by the window and stares until dark

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and rocks by the fire and cries out her heart

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Please call out the cavalry

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Send my man home

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For we need our daddy

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and so does this farm

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mama stays awake to pray, in a lonely straw bed

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and we rise before the sun, for the work that you left

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been about a year since my daddy had gone

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when I saw an old carriage, and a coat I'd once known

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it was draped o'er a man who once stood proud and tall

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now broken and battered and missing an arm

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he cried when he saw us, and the words they came slow

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of the sunrise he found and the hell that he'd known

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he asked for forgiveness for failing us all

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his duty cut short, in the battle he lost

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We said, "don't mind that daddy, for now you are home,

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now mama cries for joy, and she won't sleep alone.

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You've sons and you've daughters, now please use our arms."

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Now rise before the sun, for the work to be done.