Down Where The River Bends

It's hard to keep the tears out of my eyes
 For this might be our last goodbye
 Your country calls you to defend this great land
 So do your part just like a man
 Down where the river bends
 With God's help, we'll meet again
 Under the same old sycamore tree
 Proud of each other in the land of the free
 I'll go down to the ocean blue
 And get just as close as I came to you
 Though the ocean wide may keep us apart
 It won't keep you, dear, from out of my heart
 Down where the river bends
 With God's help, we'll meet again
 Under the same old sycamore tree
 Proud of each other in the land of the free
 If the worst should happen and the poppies should wave
 Over your far and distant and lonely grave
 All the rest of my life I would spend in prayer
 I'll meet you in Heaven, they'll be no war there
 Down where the river bends
 With God's help, we'll meet again
 Under the same old sycamore tree
 Proud of each other in the land of the free
 Proud of each other in the land of the free