To My Dearest Wife

Waitin' on a sunrise, I've given up on sleep
 My only thoughts are with you all back home in Tennessee
 They're dug in on the hilltop, we got cover in the trees
 Between the two, an open field that looks like hell to me
 And to my dearest wife I write
 Kiss our baby girls tonight
 Tomorrow's battle will not wait
 But I don't see no other way
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 I can see the old house not too long ago
 Every night I slept by your side, heaven just bein' home
 Can hear 'em callin' Reveille, I can see the sun
 It breaks my heart we're kept apart, still fightin' to be done
 And to my dearest wife I write
 Kiss our baby girls tonight
 Tomorrow's battle will not wait
 But I don't see no other way
 Mine eyes have seen the glory
 The glory of the comin' of the Lord
 And he is tramplin' out the vintage
 The vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
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 Now the sun is risen, you mean the world to me
 My thoughts was turned to work at hand far from Tennessee
 They're dug in on the hilltop, we leave the cover of the trees
 We'll march across that open field that looks like hell to me
 To my dearest wife I write
 Kiss our baby girls tonight
 Tomorrow's battle will not wait
 But I don't see no other way
 The bride of war wears blood and fire
 Hand-in-hand, death walks beside her
 We'll cross the field, lay all to waste
 I don't see no other way
 To my dearest wife I write
 Kiss our baby girls tonight