She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Anonymous
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SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND HER NECK SHE WEARS A YELLOW RIBBON Susie Simpkins in the village papers Read about these soldiers manly capers And made up her mind That a soldier's bonnie bride she'd be Volunteers were called a little later Big Si Hubbard stopped a-hoeing 'taters Fell right into line And mustered with a company She cried and kissed him when he marched away And she vowed to keep him in her mind each day 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it in the Winter and the Summer so they say If you ask her, "Why the decoration?" She'll say, "It's fur my lover who is fur, fur away" Fur away (fur away) fur away (fur away) If she is milkin' cows or mowin' hay 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it in the winter and the summer so they say If you ask her, "Why the decoration?" She'll say, "It's fur my lover who is fur, fur away" Fur away (fur away) fur away (fur away) If she is milkin' cows or mowin' hay 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away Months rolled by and patiently she waited Read the war news, greatly agitated No word from her boy Till a letter from his Captain said "Your beau, Silas, he went out a-gunnin' Soon he had the enemy a-runnin'" Susie wept for joy Though further on the letter read "The enemy can run some, you can bet But they couldn't capture Si, he's runnin' yet" (Runnin' yet) 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it in the Winter and the Summer so they say If you ask her, "Why the decoration?" She'll say, "It's fur my lover who is fur, fur away" Fur away (fur away) fur away (fur away) If she is milkin' cows or mowin' hay 'Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon She wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away | SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON Le chiesero perché quel nastro giallo Perché il mio amore sta tra i baldi cavalier... |