Soldiers Return

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All the pretty girls standing in the garden, a brown shoe
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soldier came walking by. He stepped up to her thinking just
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to tease her. Said I think that you will be my bride.

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I have a sweetheart he is in the Army , across the sea, in
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some distant land. I'd never send him a dear john letter,
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just for the sake of some fast talking man.

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supposing that he's not lost in some battle, not even
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out, in the ice and snow. But in the arms of some foreign
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beauty, did you ever think, it might be so.

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I know that he is lost in some battle, though I know not
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if, he be alive or dead. I have this glove that I once knit
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for him...see how it's stained, with his life's own blood.

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He reached his hand, down inside his pocket...lean close
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and see the gift I bear. That very glove that you are
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holding. It is the same as I have here.

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I know that you do not recognize me, my face is changed
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by some battle scars, but my heart inside , it is just
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the same love...as when I left, to join the war.

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Now wars may come and take away your loved ones. It may
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seem easy to deceive. But if you truely love some
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soldier....than you must set, his mind at ease.