Blue Eyed Boston Boy

[Intro--Banjo} D D D D C C G G G D C He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy, C G His voice was low with pain. G D C "I'll do your bidding, comrade mine, C G If I ride back again. G D G But if you ride back and I am left, G D You'll do as much for me, D C Mother, you know, must hear the news, C G So write to her tenderly. D D G G D C "She's waiting at home like a patient saint, C G Her fond face pale with woe. D C Her heart will be broken when I am gone, C G I'll see her soon, I know." D G Just then the order came to charge, G D For an instance hand touched hand. D C They said, "Aye," and away they rode, C G That brave and devoted band. Break--Mandolin D D C C C C G G D D C C C C G G D C Straight was the track to the top of the hill, D C G The rebels they shot and shelled, D C Plowed furrows of death through the toiling ranks, C G And guarded them as they fell. D G There soon came a horrible dying yell D From heights that they could not gain, C And those whom doom and death had spared C G Rode slowly back again. }G G D G G D C But among the dead that were left on the hill G Was the boy with the curly hair. D C The tall dark man who rode by his side D C Lay dead beside him there. D G There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl G D The words that her lover had said. D C While mother at home is awaiting her son C G She'll only find he's dead. D C While mother at home is awaiting her son C G She'll only find he's dead. G G C C G