Ricky Skaggs – Two Soldiers (Guitar)

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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 instant 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 through the toilling 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 that 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 that 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.