Two Soldiers Lyrics - David Byrne

She was just a blue eyed Boston girl 

Her voice was low with pain 

I'll do your bidding comrade mine 

If I ride back again 

But if you ride back and I am dead 

You'll do as much for me 

Mother, you know, must hear the news 

So write her tenderly 

She's awaiting at home like a patient saint 

Her fallen face paled with woe 

Her heart would be broken when I am gone 

I'll see her soon, I know 

Related 

15 Huge Stars Who Were Backup Singers First 

Love Stinks, So Here Are 15 Anti-Valentine's Day Songs 

Modern Love: The Best Top 40 Love Songs For Valentine's Day 

Just then the order came to charge 

For an instant hand touched hand 

They said, aye and away they rode 

That brave and devoted band 

Straight was the course to the top of the hill 

And the rebels they shot and shelled 

Plowed furrows of death through the toiling ranks 

And guarded them as they fell 

There soon was a horrible dying yell 

From heights that they could not gain 

And those who doom and death had spared 

Rode slowly back again 

But among the dead that were left on the hill 

Was the girl with the curly hair 

The tall dark man who'd fought by her side 

Lay dead beside her there 

Photos 

There was was no one to write the green-eyed girl 

The words that her lover had said 

While mother at home is awaiting her girl 

She'll only know she is dead 

She'll only know she's dead 

She'll only know she's dead