Misty River - Blue-eyed Boston Boy lyrics

HE WAS JUST A BLUE-EYED BOSTON BOY, HIS VOICE WAS LOW WITH PAIN I?LL DO YOUR BIDDING, COMRADE MINE, IF I RIDE BACK AGAIN BUT IF YOU RIDE BACK WHEN I AM DEAD YOU?LL DO AS MUCH FOR ME? MY MOTHER YOU KNOW MUST HEAR THE NEWS SO WRITE TO HER TENDERLY SHE?S WAITING AT HOME LIKE A PATIENT SAINT, HER FINE FACE PALE WITH WOE HER HEART WILL BE BROKEN WHEN I AM GONE, I?LL SEE HER SOON I KNOW JUST THEN THE ORDER CAME TO CHARGE FOR AN INSTANT HAND TOUCHED HAND THEY ANSWERED ?AYE? THEN ON THEY RODE THAT BRAVE AND DEVOTED BAND SOLO: VERSE STRAIGHT WAY WAS THE COURSE TO THE TOP OF THE HILL, THE REBELS THEY SHOT & SHELLED PLOWED FURROWS OF DEATH IN THE TOILING RANKS AND GUARDED TEHM AS THEY FELL THERE SOON WAS A TERRIBLE DYING YELL, FROM THE HEIGHTS THEY COULD NOT GAIN AND THOSE WHO DOOM AND DEATH HAD SPARED RODE SLOWLY BACK AGAIN SOLO: VERSE & CHORUS BUT AMONG THE DEAD WHO WERE LEFT ON THE FIELD ? WAS THE BOY WITH THE CURLY HAIR AND THE TALL DARK MAN WHO FOUGHT BY HIS SIDE? LAY DEAD BESIDE HIM THERE THERE WAS NONE TO WRITE TO THE BLUE-EYED GIRL THE WORDS HER LOVER HAD SAID WHILE MOTHER AT HOME IS AWAITING HER BOY SHE?LL ONLY KNOW HE?S DEAD WHILE MOTHER AT HOME IS AWAITING HER BOY SHE?LL ONLY KNOW?.HE?S DEAD