Eyed Boston Boy Chords & Lyrics - Mark Erelli - Blue

[INTRO]
[E] [E7] [Em7] [C] [D] [E7] [Em7] [C] [D] [E]

[VERSE]
He was just a blue eyed [D]Boston boy
His voice was [A]low with pain
I'll [E]do your bidding comrade [D]mine
If I ride back a[A]gain
But if [E]you ride on and I should [A]fall
You'll do as much for [E]me
Mother at [A]home is awaiting the [D]news
So write her [E]tender[A]ly

[VERSE]
She is [E]waiting at home like a [D]patient saint
Her fond face [A]pale with woe
Her [E]heart will be broken when [D]I am dead
I'll see her face no [A]more
Just [E]then the order [A]came to charge
For a moment hand touched [E]hand
They answered "[A]Aye" and away they [D]rode
That [E]brave and devoted [A]band

[VERSE]
Straight [E]way was the course to the [D]top of the hill
And the rebels with [A]shot and shell
Ploughed [E]furrows of death through the [D]toiling ranks
And guarded them as they [A]fell
There [E]soon came a horrible [A]dying sound
From the heights they could not [E]gain
And [A]those that doom and [D]death had spared
Rode [E]slowly back a[A]gain

[VERSE]
But a[E]mong the dead at the [D]top of the hill
Was the [A]boy with the golden hair
And the [E]tall dark man that [D]rode by his side
Lay still beside him [A]there
There was [E]no one to write to his [A]blue-eyed girl
The words that her lover had [E]said
And [A]mother at home is a[D]waiting the news
She'll [E]only find he's [A]dead
While [A]mother at home is a[D]waiting the news
She'll [E]only find he's [A]dead