Soldier's Farewell

I'm going to join the army
 I'm going to volunteer
 I'm going to be a soldier
 Before another year
 I'm going to Pensacola
 To tarry awhile
 Far from you, my darling
 More than a hundred miles
 O, hear the cannon roaring
 See the bullets fly
 Hear the drum a-beating
 To drown the soldier's cry
 O, stay at home, dear Johnny
 Make me your wife
 If you go to Pensacola
 They'll surely take your life
 They'll put you in the center
 There you'll be slain
 It'll burst my heart asunder
 To never see you again
 Let me go with you, Johnny
 I'll travel at your side
 When the war is over
 Then I will be your bride
 No stay at home, dear Nancy
 Lead a single life
 If I do come back again
 I'll make you my wife
 They marched him through the country
 Marched him into town
 He marched to Pensacola
 And there they shot him down
 I'm weary of the fighting
 Weary of the war
 Farewell, my Johnny
 I'll never see you no more