Somebody's Darling chords by Kathy Mattea

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Verse 1
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Into the ward of
the clean whitewashed halls
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Where the dead slept and
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the dying lay
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Wounded by bayonets,
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sabers, and balls
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Somebody's darling was
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born one day
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Somebody's darling,
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so young and so brave
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Wearing still on his sweet yet pale face
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Soon to be hid in the dust
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of the grave
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The lingering light of his
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boyhood's grace
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Somebody's darlin',
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somebody's cryin'
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Who'll tell his mother where
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her boy died?
Matted and damp are his
tresses of gold,
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Kissing the snow off that fair young brow.
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Pale are the lips of most delicate mold,
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Somebody's darling is dying now.
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Back from his beautiful
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purple -veined brow,
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Brush off the wandering waves of gold.
Cross his white hands
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on his broad bosom now.
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Somebody's darlin' is still within record
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Somebody's darlin',
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somebody's pride
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Who'll tell his mother where the
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boy died?
Somebody's watching and
waiting for him,
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yearning to hold him again
to her breast.
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Yet there he lies with his blue eyes so dim,
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and purple childlike lips half apart.
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Tenderly bury the fair unknown dead,
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pausing to drop on his grave a tear.
Carve on the wooden slab
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over his head
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somebody's darling slumbering here.
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Somebody's darling,
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somebody's bride
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Who'll tell his mother where
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the boy died?
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