OK, one more. This is from the Bear Family CD titled Sara & Maybelle Carter (1991), a reissue of a cut recorded June 16, 1966; released on the Columbia label on an album titled An Historic Reunion: Sara and Maybelle The Original Carters. You'll see that it is very close to the Red Clay Ramblers version (or vice-versa).

WHILE THE BAND IS PLAYING DIXIE
[I'm Humming Home Sweet Home]
(Joseph F. Hortiz, 1900)

It was on a day when soldiers wrote a line to those they loved
To mothers, wives and sweethearts far away
When a fair haired boy sat dreaming of a far-off southern town
Of a dark-eyed maid who's waiting day by day

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While the band is playing Dixie, I'm humming "Home Sweet Home"
It takes me back to Georgia though I'm far across the foam
Once again beside the river with my Mary dear I roam
While the band is playing Dixie, I'm humming "Home Sweet Home"

Be it ever so humble, no place like home
Be it ever so humble, no place like home

On that night when all were sleeping came the bugle call to arms
With flashing eyes they plunged into the fray
And among the first to give his life all for the flag he loved
Was the boy who dreamed of Dixie far away

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They found within his pocket, a bloodstained little note
A bullet hole had pierced it through and through
It began with "Darlin' Mary, if I don't come back again
Just remember that my last thoughts were of you

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TRANSCRIBED BY EAR
(also transcribed by Joe Offer)