[00:11.13]Just before the battle mother
[00:16.83]I am thinking most of you
[00:22.50]While upon the field we're watching
[00:28.14]With the enemy in view
[00:33.69]Comrades brave are 'round me lying
[00:40.47]Filled with thoughts of home and God
[00:46.98]For well they know that on the morrow
[00:53.19]Some will sleep beneath the sod
[00:58.95]Farewell mother you may never
[01:04.76]Press me to your breast again
[01:11.40]But oh you'll not forget me mother
[01:17.49]If I'm numbered with the slain
[01:25.56]Hark I hear the bugles sounding
[01:31.11]'Tis the signal for the fight
[01:36.60]Now may God protect us mother
[01:42.39]As He ever does the right
[01:47.67]Hear the Battle-Cry of Freedom
[01:53.52]How it swells upon the air
[01:59.79]Oh yes we'll rally 'round the standard
[02:06.84]Or we'll perish nobly there
[02:12.69]Farewell mother you may never
[02:18.72]Press me to your breast again
[02:24.96]But oh you'll not forget me mother
[02:32.43]If I'm numbered with the slain