THE DECEMBERISTS - YANKEE BAYONET (I WILL BE HOME THEN) LYRICS
Writer(s):COLIN MELOY
Artist: The Decemberists Lyrics
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A sweetheart left behind
Girl: Far from the hills of the sea-swaled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies
Soldier: Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bow high
Girl: But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils
All a-chew on your bones so dry
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave? For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Then
Girl: When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
Soldier: There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless,
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
Soldier: But O did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile?
Girl: No, I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child
But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave? For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Soldier: And stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
This skein of skin is all too few
To keep me from you
Solider and Girl: But O my love though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind
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