White Dove



    Laying low in the darkness
    A long slow pain beats deep in her chest
    And she wonders if he's safe tonight
    Or if he's warm enough
    And she tries to send upon the wind
    A song of her love

    Well a hundred miles away or more
    A man learns what he's worth
    A canon fires his body flies
    Ashes to the earth
    Far away something stirs a woman from her sleep
    Flutters at her windowsill and she begins to weep

    Oh white dove fly to her window in the morning
    Tell my sweet love that I'm gone that I'm gone
    White dove tell my love all there is to say
    Oh white dove fly fly away

    Well a hundred miles away or more
    This wind becomes a storm
    Another soldier closed his eyes
    And slowly becomes warm
    Turns his eyes to the sky from where he's laying low
    There he sees the white dove lying in the snow

    Oh white dove fly to her window in the morning
    Tell my sweet love that I'm gone that I'm gone
    White dove tell my love all there is to say
    Oh white dove fly fly away

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