Yankee Bayonet

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Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
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 A sweetheart left behind
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Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
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Sings upon the birch bough high
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But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
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All a'chew upon your bones so dry

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But when the sun breaks_
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To no more bullets in Battle Creek
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Then will you make a grave
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For I will be home then
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I will be home then
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Then_____

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When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee__
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Made a seam to__ hem me in
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There at the fair when our eyes caught careless
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Got my heart right pierced by a pin

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But oh did you see all the dead of Manassas
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All the bellies and the bones and the bile
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No I lingered here with the blankets barren
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And my own belly big with child

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But when the sun breaks_
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To no more bullets in Battle Creek
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Then will you make a grave
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For I will be home then
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I will be home then
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 I will be home then___

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Stems and bones and stone walls too
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Could keep me from you___
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Skein of skin is all too few
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To keep me from you___

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But oh my love though our bodies may be parted
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Though our skin may_ not touch skin
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Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
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I will come on the breath of the wind

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