Dying Soldier-The Carter Family

[ti:Dying Soldier] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:The Carter Family Selected Favorites, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dying Soldier - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:12.01]France's sun was slowly sinking o'er [00:15.62]The hilltops far away [00:18.12]The land was in its beauty [00:20.00]Where the dying soldier lay [00:22.70] [00:24.27]Tears were streaming down his face [00:27.32]As he slowly raised his head [00:29.96]And these were the dying words he said [00:33.76] [00:35.01]Oh carry me back to old Tennessee [00:40.16]Let this be my last repose [00:43.76] [00:45.01]Lay my feet beneath the lilacs [00:49.87]Lay my head beneath the rose [00:53.10] [01:17.18]Take this message to my mother for [01:20.35]I know she's old and gray [01:22.97]At home I know she's waiting [01:24.83]Looking for her boy some day [01:27.74] [01:29.02]Oh dear mother I pulled through for [01:32.25]My country and for you [01:34.64]And I'm dying for the red white and blue [01:38.48] [01:39.46]Oh carry me back to old Tennessee [01:44.52]Let this be my last repose [01:48.20] [01:49.43]Lay my feet beneath the lilacs [01:54.41]Lay my head beneath the rose [01:57.66] [02:21.40]O'er the hills of Tennessee [02:23.69] [02:24.25]Where the wild winds wander free [02:27.33]The little girl waiting there for me [02:30.92] [02:32.16]Tell her that the rose she gave me [02:35.14]Will be placed upon my grave [02:37.69]In memory of her soldier brave [02:41.55] [02:42.57]Oh carry me back to old Tennessee [02:47.23] [02:47.88]Let this be my last repose [02:51.22] [02:52.54]Lay my feet beneath the lilacs [02:57.52]Lay my head beneath the rose