[00:11.31]We shall meet but we shall miss him
[00:16.17]
[00:17.43]There will be one vacant chair
[00:22.41]
[00:23.04]We shall linger to caress him
[00:27.66]
[00:29.07]While we breathe our evening prayer
[00:33.93]
[00:35.49]When a year ago we gathered
[00:39.81]
[00:40.86]Joy was in his mild blue eye
[00:45.54]
[00:46.83]But a golden chord is severed
[00:51.12]
[00:52.80]And our hopes in ruin lie
[00:57.27]
[00:58.41]We shall meet but we shall miss him
[01:03.27]
[01:04.53]There will be one vacant chair
[01:09.27]
[01:10.17]We shall linger to caress him
[01:14.70]
[01:16.05]While we breathe our evening prayer
[01:20.94]
[01:32.52]At our fireside sad and lonely
[01:37.38]
[01:38.01]Often will the bosom swell
[01:42.60]
[01:43.65]At remembrance of the story
[01:48.84]
[01:49.53]How our noble Willie sell
[01:53.58]
[01:55.41]How he strove to bear our banner
[01:59.88]
[02:01.11]Through the thickest of the fight
[02:06.00]
[02:07.23]And uphold our country's honor
[02:11.07]
[02:12.54]In the strength of manhood's night
[02:17.31]
[02:18.21]We shall meet but we shall miss him
[02:22.86]
[02:24.42]There will be one vacant chair
[02:29.28]
[02:30.00]We shall linger to caress him
[02:34.53]
[02:35.88]While we breathe our evening prayer
[02:40.83]
[02:51.87]True they tell us wreaths of glory
[02:56.67]
[02:57.60]Ever more will deck his brow
[03:01.23]
[03:02.88]But this soothes the anguish only
[03:07.74]
[03:08.25]Sweeping o'er our heartstrings now
[03:13.20]
[03:14.19]Sleep today Oh early fallen
[03:18.75]
[03:20.04]In thy green and narrow bed
[03:24.24]
[03:25.65]Dirges from the pine and cypress
[03:29.97]
[03:30.81]Mingle with the tears we shed
[03:35.67]
[03:37.05]We shall meet but we shall miss him
[03:41.67]
[03:43.17]There will be one vacant chair
[03:48.21]
[03:48.90]We shall linger to caress him
[03:53.55]
[03:56.61]While we breathe our evening prayer