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Composer: Colin Meloy

The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) lyrics



Soldier: Heart carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
A sweetheart left behind

Girl: Far from the hills of the sea-swaled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies

Soldier: Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bow high

Girl: But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils
All a-chew on your bones so dry

But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave? For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
Then

Girl: When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in

Soldier: There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless,
Got my heart right pierced by a pin

Soldier: But O did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile?

Girl: No, I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child

But when the sun breaks to no more bullets in Battlecreek
Then will you make a grave? For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then

Soldier: And stems and bones and stone walls too
Could keep me from you
This skein of skin is all too few
To keep me from you

Solider and Girl: But O my love though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind
Songs list of album: The Crane Wife (2006)
         Title Rating
01   The Crane Wife, Pt. 3 lyrics   -
02   The Island: Come and See/The Landlord's Daughter/You'll Not Feel the ... lyrics   -
03   Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) lyrics   -
04   O Valencia! lyrics   -
05   The Perfect Crime No. 2 lyrics   -
06   When the War Came lyrics   -
07   Shankill Butchers lyrics   -
08   Summersong lyrics   -
09   The Crane Wife, Pts. 1 & 2 lyrics   -
10   Sons & Daughters lyrics   -
 

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