Lyr Req: Two Soldiers / Last Fierce Charge

Subject: Two soldiers
From:
Date: 18 Aug 97 - 02:59 PM

I'm looking for lyrics to this song. The story is about two soldiers. One gives the other a letter for his family and asks him to take it to them if he dies. The other soldier also gives his friend a letter with the same request. As it turns out they both die and the families back home never got to read their last letters . . . Can you help me?

Subject: RE: Two soldiers
From: RS
Date: 26 Aug 97 - 04:53 AM

Try the "Search the Digitrad Database" box on the upper right of this page. I searched for "two soldiers" and found "The Last Fierce Charge" which seems to fit your description (among various other songs returned on the search list). Is this what you are looking for?

Subject: Words to Civil War song
From:
Date: 27 Sep 97 - 03:59 AM

My sisters and I are looking for the complete version of a song that our grandmother sang to us many years ago. She always called it "The Soldier's Song." Below are the only lyrics that we can recall.

Just before the last fierce charge
Two soldiers drew their reign
With a parting word and a touch of the hand
Ere they might not meet again

One had blue eyes and curly hair
Nineteen but a month ago
Red rosy cheeks and a dimpled chin
He was only a boy, you know

The other was tall, dark, daring and brave
His faith in this world was dim
But all the more, he trusted one
She was all the world to him

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The tall dark man was the first to speak
Saying “Charlie, my time has come

“We’ll ride together into this fight
But you’ll ride out alone
So promise a little more trouble to take
For me when I am gone

Subject: RE: Words to Civil War song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Sep 97 - 06:17 AM

I think it's "The Last Fierce Charge," which is in the database, with a tune. Use the search box in the upper right corner of most pages at this site, and enter a distinctive word, or a phrase in brackets, from the song. for this one, I entered [my time has come], and it came up. It's a good song - I hadn't noticed it before.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Words to Civil War song
From:
Date: 02 Oct 97 - 04:09 AM

Trying to find the CW song that named my gf and his twin. Title unknown; first line: "I wish to be a soldier boy said Little Herbert Lee". Later in the song is mentioned "Melvin Snow." That's how Herbert Lee Gaylord and Melvin Snow Gaylord were named when they were born 3 Mar 1871 in Geneva, NY.