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Thread #23701   Message #265153
Posted By: Giac
26-Jul-00 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Blackbird of Sweet Avondale
Subject: Lyr Add: BROTHER GREEN ^^
Hope this is what you seek:

BROTHER GREEN
(Tune is Barbara Allen)

O brother Green, do come to me,
For I am shot and bleeding,
And I must die, no more to see,
My wife and my dear children.

The Southern foe has laid me low,
On this cold ground to suffer,
Dear brother stay, and put me away,
And write my wife a letter.

Tell her I know she's prayed for me,
And now her prayers are answered,
That I might be prepared to die,
If I should fall in battle.

Go tell my wife she must not grieve,
Go kiss my little children,
For I am going to Heaven to live,
To see my dear old mother.

Dear sister may have gone there too,
She lives and reigns with angels,
And Jeffer's son, who died when young,
I know I'll see their faces.

I have one brother in this wide world,
He's fighting for the Union,
But, oh, dear wife, I've lost my life,
To put down this Rebellion.

Tell my wife she must not grieve,
And kiss the little children,
For they will call their pa in vain,
When he is up in Heaven.

My little babes I love them well,
Oh could I once more see them,
That I might give a long farewell,
And meet them all in Heaven.


^^