As The Sun Went Down

After the dim of the battle roar

Just at the close of day

wounded and bleeding upon the field

two Soldier lay

one a man of thin gray hair

one a lock of brown

biding each other a last farewell

just as the sun went down

One though of his mother at home alone

feeble and old and gray

One of his sweetheart he left in town

happy and young and gay

One kissed a ringlet of thin gray hair

One kissed a lock of brown

Biding a farewell to the stars and stripes

Just as the sun went down

One knew the joys of a mothers love

One of the sweetheart fair

Thinking of home they lay side by side

breathing a farewell prayer

One for the mother, old and gray

One for his sweetheart in town

They closed there eyes to earth and sky's

Just as the sun went down