Dear Sarah,
I'm stuck on a train
bound for
Richmond
We marched down from
Kernstown, uphill all the way
At the train stop in
Stanton, we pulled up and climbed on
Then we'd just sit there for a night
and a day and the nights are long
But I write you every day
and I'm a may song
But you used to say
Go on love sweet
William, is love
Barbary
Allen
How she was always a long
ways away
My insides are all torn from
hardtack and parched corn
My hat flew in a windstorm,
so the sun has turned me red
The first chance to last till I pull out your
Bible
Fall fast asleep before one verse is read
And the nights are long,
but I write you every day
And I'm a base song that
you used to sing
The one love sweet
William, his love
Barbary
Allen, and how she was always a long
ways away
Do your
Sarah and party and keep me in your heart
And I do not drink or gamble
as I promised you I'd do
So as not to mislead you,
I did have a need to
When we were surrounded and
it looked like we were through
But the nights are long
But I write you every day
and I hum a song
That you used to sing
The one of
Sweet
William is
Love,
Barbary
Allen
How she was always a long ways away
The one of
Sweet
William is
Love,
Barbary
Allen
How she was always a long ways away
The start of town where I did dwell
There was a fair maiden dweller
Many a land cried well at day
For the love of
Barbie
Alley
you