Dyin' To Get Home To You

DYIN’ TO GET HOME TO YOU

VERSE 1
Me and some other Union Soldiers
Got captured by the Rebs
Lord, they threw us into prison
Trying to starve us all to death
Oh the winter time is freezin’
And the summer’s burning hot
I got nothin’ but some memories
I wish I forgot

CHORUS
Every day I hope and pray that
I will be rescued
I’m dying
To get home to you

VERSE 2
Sometimes we hear the distant thunder
But we don’t get any rain
I guess those cannonballs are flying
Into Richmond in vain
Wish my brothers in the blue coats
Would win this bloody war
If the Rebels are victorious
Then I will die for sure

CHORUS
Every day I hope and pray that
I will be rescued
I’m dying
To get home to you

BRIDGE
I send you kisses every evening
Carried softly by the wind
And I pray that they caress you
Until we shall meet again

CHORUS
Every day I hope and pray that
I will be rescued
I’m dying
To get home to you

TAG
Lord knows I’m dying to get home to you

© 2014 Denise Reagan/Songs of Arabesque
Jeff Taylor/ Seek1st Publishing (ASCAP)