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Kind friends my heart is broken I can no longer stand
Since my true love Joshua's gone to fight in Afghanistan
He left me here to mourn and weep to worry and forebode
To roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
I met him at the high school football game he played for The Buffaloes
In all my life I ne'er did meet a boy so brash and bold
He said I had the sweetest smile of all the girls he'd known
And he walked me home to Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
The day that he was leaving he smiled and with his hand
He touched my lips and gleaned a kiss to have at his command
And into his breast pocket he placed it soft and slow, saying
I'll never be too far now from my girl on Sweet Anne's Road
Like the waters that flow from our land down to Roanoke
Drop by drop he slipped away
As year after year they called his name
And he'd go back again
In the Helmand River Valley where the hardened poppies grow
He stepped upon an IED they said he never knew
They said he never felt a thing but how are they to know
The white pines they hang heavy now by the side of Sweet Anne's Road
Like the waters that flow from our land down to Roanoke
Drop by drop he slipped away
As year after year they called his name
And he'd go back again
Kind friends my heart is broken I can no longer stand
Since my true love Joshua went to fight in Afghanistan
He left me here to mourn and weep to worry and forebode
To roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
Oh I roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
Since my true love Joshua's gone to fight in Afghanistan
He left me here to mourn and weep to worry and forebode
To roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
I met him at the high school football game he played for The Buffaloes
In all my life I ne'er did meet a boy so brash and bold
He said I had the sweetest smile of all the girls he'd known
And he walked me home to Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
The day that he was leaving he smiled and with his hand
He touched my lips and gleaned a kiss to have at his command
And into his breast pocket he placed it soft and slow, saying
I'll never be too far now from my girl on Sweet Anne's Road
Like the waters that flow from our land down to Roanoke
Drop by drop he slipped away
As year after year they called his name
And he'd go back again
In the Helmand River Valley where the hardened poppies grow
He stepped upon an IED they said he never knew
They said he never felt a thing but how are they to know
The white pines they hang heavy now by the side of Sweet Anne's Road
Like the waters that flow from our land down to Roanoke
Drop by drop he slipped away
As year after year they called his name
And he'd go back again
Kind friends my heart is broken I can no longer stand
Since my true love Joshua went to fight in Afghanistan
He left me here to mourn and weep to worry and forebode
To roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
Oh I roam the fields round Copper Hill just off of Sweet Anne's Road
Contributed by Jim Sharkey - 2017/7/23 - 01:41
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