Key: Gb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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silver hair flowing like the river with a color fair as yellow bright leaf
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How an East Virginia daughter of a wealthy Richmond law
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yer could love a poor tobacco farmer like me
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But we were soon wed together lost in love with each
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other and I called my darling lover, Bright Leaf
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Then one morning brought a letter she was crying
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as I told her I was drafted to the rebel infantry
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Verse 2
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to fighting with no purpose
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My little Bright Leaf
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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She wrote in every letter she'd love me longer than forever
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like the mountain Heather that's Evergreen
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The thought of her keeps me warm through the bloodshed and
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the storms I would fight a hundred wars for my Bright Leaf
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On the last year in December, cold and hungry from the winter,
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a letter was delivered unto me
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It was from my darling's father writing that his
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only daughter is waiting in heaven for me
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Verse 4
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Now I'm running through the pines,
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I deser ted from the lines
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I heard shots from the ridgeline felt a sharp pain in my
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side and beckoned another bullet on my knees
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Till the darkness filled my
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eyes and I could see
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My little Bright Leaf
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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Her eyes showing like silver hair flowing like the
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river with a color fairest yellow Bright Leaf
Outro 1
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