Lone Pine Hill

Intro: I swear I see her in my dreams sometimes held up in the middle of the night shaking like a pistol in a young man's hand there in the pale moonlight standing up on top of that lonely hill spared by the company mine is my blue-eyed baby with her best dress on in the shadow of a lonely pine Ah but back before the war when the company came these hills grew wild and free Me and baby we'd hide in the hollows low away from the cruel sun's heat but then they knocked down the timber and burned off the brush to get to the riches below And when they pulled out they left the cold black ground And one pine standing alone So take me home Lone Pine Hill Now I signed up back in sixty-one I'm an Army of Virginia man I been from Manassas to Moconacy all the way to Sayler's Creek fightin' for my homeland Ah but four years gone and all hope lost and Richmond under siege We're digging out Five Forks waiting in the rain For Sheridan to bring us to our knees So take me home Lone Pine Hill There's a strange moon hanging overhead tonight and if the rain keeps comin' then the creeks gonna rise but with the Good Lord's Grace, I'll make it out of this place and I'll be in your arms come the morning light, I swear So God grant me speed, and grant me forgiveness and carry me all through the night take me through your hills and over your rivers away from this awful fight 'Cause I never known a man that's ever owned another and I ain't never owned nothing of my own So after four long years I just can't tell you what the hell I've been fightin' for So take me home Lone Pine Hill