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Oratorio, Section IV: Hopes and Fears
:31
Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Bass:
.Weep- ing sad and lone- ly--------------------------------------- Hopes and fears how---- : vain;
Bass
When this cru- el was is o--------- ver pray------ that we meet a- gain.
Womens Chorus pray------ that we meet a- gain.
1:14
Soprano and Womens Chorus:
He is the dar---- ling of my heart, my South- ern sold- ier boy.
1:22
Soprano
Bob Roe- buck is-------- my sweet- heart's name, he's off to the wars and gone.
He's fight- ing for--- his Nan- ny dear, his sword he's buck- led on.
He's---------- fight- ing for his own----- true------ love, his foes he does--- de- fy.
He is the dar-- ling of my heart, my South- ern sold- ier boy.
1:55 Soprano
When Bob comes home-- from war's a- larms, we'll start in life a- new.
Oh if in bat----- tle he were slain, I know that I would die.
But I am sure-- he'll come a- gain to cheer my weep- ing eye.
But should he fall in this--- our glo- ri- ous cause,
When we think of those-- who are---- a- way, we look a- bove-- for joy.
I'm might- y glad--- my Bob- by is a South- ern sold- ier boy.
2:53
Tenor (Ned)
It was long be- for Abe Lin- coln that they took my Nell a- way.
I de- layed for-- months to hear some word
com- ing back a- long the route---- that they car- ried Nel- lie Gray,
then I fol- lowed at last tne Drink- ing Gourd.
My can- oe was un- der wat- er and my ban- jo all un- strung;
I was tired of-- liv- ing an- y more.
My--- eyes were all cast down- ward and my songs re- mained un- sung,
while I yearned for my lost love on that shore.
In the good white preach- er's home up in O- hi- o I stay,
as the Yanks are mov- ing South- ward with their war.
Some--- day they'll let me sold- ier and I'm wait- ing for that day,
but how des- o- late now the days of yore.
4:16
Mezzo
Ah, he kissed me when he left me and he told me to be brave,
Ah, he kissed me and he told me to be brave.
Tenor: For I go, I go my dar- ling, all that's dear on Earth to save.
Mezzo
So I stif- fled down the sob- bing and I list- ened with a smile,
for I knew his count- ry called him, though my heart should break the while.
4:58
Womens Chorus
Ah, he kissed me when he left me and his part- ing words re main
treas- ured deep with- in my bos- om
Tenor: Dear- est we shall meet a- gain.
5:17 Mezzo
O the sun still shines as bright- ly and the world looks just as gay,
as up- on the fat- al morn- ing, that which bore my love a- way.
O how much--- of joy and--- sun- shine is with him for- ev- er gone.
Mezzo and Womens Chorus:
Where now the pine tree rus- tles and the South- ern branch- es wave,
there my own true love is ly- ing low with- in a sold- iers' grave.
Ah, he kissed me when he left me and his part- ing words re- main
treas- ured deep with- in my bos- om
Tenor: Dear- est we shall meet a- gain.
Dar- ling we will meet----------- We will meet a- gain.
6:55
Soprano
By my win---- dow--- sad- ly sit--- ing,
in the stead- y grow- ing gloom
where the twi- light sha---- dows----- fli--- ting,
like hushed hands in to my room,
find me sigh- ing, watch- ing, weep- ing o'er the death of ev- ry joy
as I wait in vain thy gree---- ting my blue eyed sold- ier boy,
as I wait in vain thy gree---- ting my blue eyed------- sold- ier boy.
God of bat- tles oh----------- hear--- me from the an- guish of my heart.
He is ve- ry, ve- ry, ve- ry near--- me, do not will that we must part.
Womens Chorus: do not will that we must part.
Mens Chorus we must part.
Mezzo
I'm a maid- en lone and lone- ly, and my life has lit- tle joy.
Save the one, my dear one on----- ly, my blue eyed sold- ier bo
