Dear Sarah

One two three

Dear Sarah I'm stuck on a train bound for Richmond
We marched down Gurnstown uphill all the way
At the train stop in Stanton we pulled up and climbed on
Then we just sat there for a night and a day

And the nights are long
But I write you every day
And I hum a song
That you use to sing
The one of sweet William
His love Barbara Allen
And how she was always a long ways away

My insides are all torn from hardtack and partched corn
My hat flew in a windstorm so the sun has turned me red
The first chance to lie still I pull out your bible
But fall fast asleep before one verse is read

And the nights are long
But I write you every day
And I hum a song that you used to sing
The one of sweet William
His love Barbara Allen
And how she was always a long ways away

Dear Sarah in parting keep me in your heart
And I do not drink or gamble
As I promised you I'd do
So as not as miss lead you
I did have a need to
When we were surrounded and looked like we were through

And the nights are long
But I write you every day
And I hum a song that you used to sing
The one of sweet William
His love Barbara Allen
And how she was always a long ways away
The one of sweet William
His love Barbara Allen
And how she was always a long ways away

In Scarlet Town where I did dwell
There was a fair maid a-dwellin'
Many a lad cried well for the
For the love of Barbara Allen