To My Dearest Wife

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[Verse 1]

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Waiting on the sunrise, I've given up on sleep
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My only thoughts are with you all back home in Tennessee
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They dug in on the hilltop, we got cover in the trees
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Between the two and open field, it looks like hell to me


[Chorus]

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To my dearest wife I write
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Kiss our baby girls tonight
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Tomorrow’s battle will not wait
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I don’t see no other way

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[Verse 2]

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I could see the old house, not too long ago
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Every night I slept by your side,happy just being home
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Can hear em’ callin Reveille, I can see the sun
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It breaks my heart, we're kept apart, still fighting to be done


[Chorus]

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To my dearest wife I write
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Kiss our baby girls tonight
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Tomorrow’s battle will not wait
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I don’t see no other way


[Bridge]

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My eyes have seen the glory
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The glory of the coming of the Lord
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And he is trampling at the vintage
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The vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored


[Verse 3]

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Now the sun is risen, you mean the world to me
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My thoughts must turn to work at hand, far from Tennessee
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They're dug in on the hilltop, we leave the cover of the trees
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We'll march across that open field that looks like hell to me


[Chorus]

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To my dearest wife I write
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Kiss our baby girls tonight
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Tomorrow’s battle will not wait
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I don’t see no other way
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The bride of war wears blood and fire
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Hand in hand Death walks beside her
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We'll cross the field, lay all to waste
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I don't see no other way


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And to my dearest wife I write
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Kiss our baby girls tonight