{"id":4341,"date":"2019-07-14T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4341"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:53:43","slug":"lyrics-anthology-mother-ill-not-be-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4341","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: the civil war anthology &#8211; dear mother (i&#8217;ll not be home)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd: The Civil War Anthology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 6: Dear Mother (I&#8217;ll Not Be Home)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to die in a Maryland churchyard, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather end up in a Dixie graveyard, mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nI can\u2019t be rotting in Yankee prison, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nI lost my faith in the general\u2019s vision, mother I\u2019ll not be home<\/p>\n<p>I watched brother and father both die and I know I\u2019m next but I don\u2019t know why<br \/>\nI dug their graves and I buried their bones, dear Mother I\u2019ll not be home<\/p>\n<p>Row by row in a blood-soaked meadow, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nBide my time in the reaper\u2019s shadow, mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nWell they line boys up like they just don\u2019t need them, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nOur heads hung low when left Antietam, mother I\u2019ll not be home<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>A small brigade of our friends and neighbors, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nCut to shreds by the Union saber, mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nWe took our turn and we let them lead us, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nWell there\u2019s no boys left so they can\u2019t relieve us, mother I\u2019ll not be home<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Well the guns went still in the lull of battle, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home<br \/>\nHear the wounded moan and the dead men rattle, mother I\u2019ll not be home<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2011 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWritten by Kyle Aughe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd: The Civil War Anthology track 6: Dear Mother (I&#8217;ll Not Be Home) I don\u2019t want to die in a Maryland churchyard, oh dear mother I\u2019ll not be home I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281,"parent":4321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4341","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4341\/revisions\/4363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}