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        D                          
I have heard the cannons thundering
      G
 all night,
       D
And I cannot help but wonder,
                          A
Why's the Rebel Cause so right?
        D                          
And the morphine seems to do no 
     G
good at all.
         A                      
I would run away, if I would not 
  D
fall.

[Verse 2]
Well I joined the Southern cavalry 
    G
for fun.
           D
Must have rode a thousand horses;
                         A
Always had a way with a gun.
          D                        
Now I'm among the horseless riders 
       G
lying still.
          A                     
Swallowed up by the Cause on the 
         D
Widow's Hill.

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[Chorus]
       B                           
And I dreamed of a rose in a 
   F#
Spanish garden,
       B                         
And I kissed you and placed it in 
      F#    A
your hair.
            D                      
And, if I'm ever on my feet again, 
   G
I will,
        A                          
I will run all the way just to meet
      D
 you there.

[Solo]

[Verse 3]
Through the day I watched those 
                 G
Southern boys go down.
          D
And they lay like Georgia peaches
                            A
Bruised and broken on the ground.
             D                     
Through the night I wondered was it
            G
 worth the pain,
       A                         
And I cried not revenge, I called 
       D
your name.

[Chorus]
       B                           
And I dreamed of a rose in a 
   F#
Spanish garden,
       B                         
And I kissed you and placed it in 
      F#    A
your hair.
            D                      
And, if I'm ever on my feet again, 
   G
I will,
        A                          
I will run all the way just to meet
      D
 you there.

[Other]
        A                          
I will run all the way just to meet
      D
 you there.

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