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Version: Norman Blake and Tony Rice (1990) Dwight McCall (2007)

The Two Soldiers

Source Recording: Norman Blake and Tony Rice (1990)

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Song Details

Alternate Titles

Blue Eyed Boston Boy, Two Soldiers

Songwriter

Unknown

First Release

Mike Seeger (1964)

Genres

Folk

Themes

War Death And Mourning

Popularity

Average

Source Recording

Artist

Norman Blake and Tony Rice

Album

Blake and Rice 2 (1990)

Key Ab Time Waltz Tempo 139 BPM Length 4:34 ISRC USRO29026605

Musicians

Norman Blake — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Tony Rice — Guitar

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The Two Soldiers

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He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy his voice was low with pain

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I’ll do your bidding comrade mine if I ride back again

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But if you ride back and I am dead you’ll do as much for me

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My mother you know must hear the news so write to her tenderly

She’s praying at home like a waiting saint her fond 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 hands shook hands

They answered aye and on they rode that brave and devoted band

Straight was the course to the top of the hill and the rebels did shot and shell

Plowed furrows of death and the toiling ranks and guarded them as they fell

There soon was a horrible dying yell from heights they could not gain

And those whom doom and death had spared rode slowly back again

But among the dead that were left on the field was the boy with the curly hair

The tall dark man who fought by his side lay dead beside him there

There were none to write to the blue-eyed girl the words her lover had said

While mother at home is waiting her boy she’ll only know he’s dead

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