Just Before The Battle Mother Chords

[Verse 1]
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Just before the battle, mother,
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I am thinking most of you,
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While upon the field we're watching
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With the enemy in view.
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Comrades brave are 'round me lying,
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Filled with thoughts of home and God
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For well they know that on the morrow,
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Some will sleep beneath the sod.
 
 
[Chorus]
A                         D
Farewell, mother, you may never
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Press me to your heart again,
     A                         D
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
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If I'm numbered with the slain.
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Oh, I long to see you, mother,
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And the loving ones at home,
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But I'll never leave our banner,
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Till in honor I can come.
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Tell the traitors all around you
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That their cruel words we know,
   A                     D
In every battle kill our soldiers
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By the help they give the foe.
 
 
[Chorus]
A                         D
Farewell, mother, you may never
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Press me to your heart again,
     A                         D
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
E                        A
If I'm numbered with the slain.
 
 
[Verse 3]
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Hark! I hear the bugles sounding,
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'Tis the signal for the fight,
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Now, may God protect us, mother,
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As He ever does the right.
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Hear the "Battle-Cry of Freedom,"
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How it swells upon the air,
    A                           D
Oh, yes, we'll rally 'round the standard,
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Or we'll perish nobly there.
 
 
[Chorus]
A                         D
Farewell, mother, you may never
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Press me to your heart again,
     A                         D
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
E                        A
If I'm numbered with the slain.
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