Текст песни: Just Before the Battle Mother + перевод

Just before the battle, mother

I am thinking most of you

While upon the field we’re watching

With the enemy in view

Comrades brave are Around me lying

Filled with thoughts of home and God

For well, they know that on the morrow

Some will sleep beneath the sod

Farewell, mother, you may never

Press me to your breast again

But, oh, you’ll not forget me, mother

If I’m numbered with the slain

Oh, I long to see you, mother

And the loving ones at home

But I’ll never leave our banner

Till in honor I can come

Tell the traitors all around you

That their cruel words we know

In every battle kill our soldiers

By the help they give the foe

Farewell, mother, you may never

Press me to your breast again

But, oh, you’ll not forget me, mother

If I’m numbered with the slain

Hark, I hear the bugles sounding

'Tis the signal for the fight

Now, may God protect us, mother

As He ever does the right

Hear the battle cry of freedom

How it swells upon the air

Oh, yes, we’ll rally 'round the standard

Or we’ll perish nobly there

Farewell, mother, you may never

Press me to your breast again

But, oh, you’ll not forget me, mother

If I’m numbered with the slain

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