The Faded Coat of Blue

(Sung by Lillian as well as Annie and Loretta)

  sung by John Tobias Pearson

My brave lad he sleeps in his faded coat of blue,
In his lonely grave unknown lies a heart brave and true;
He sank faint and hungry among the famished brave.
Where they laid him sad and lonely within his nameless grave.

No more the bugle calls the weary one,
Rest noble spirit in the grave unknown;
You may know him and find him among the good and true,
Where a robe of white is given for that faded coat of blue.

He cries give me water and just one little crumb,
My mother she will bless you through all the years to come;
Tell my sweet sister so gentle and true,
That I'll meet her up in heaven in my faded coat of blue.

He says my dear comrade thou cannot take me home,
But mark my grave for mother she’ll know it when she comes;
I fear she will not know me among the good and true,
Where a robe of white is given for that faded coat of blue.

No dear one was by him to close his sweet blue eyes,
No gentle one was nigh him to give him sweet replies;
No stone marks the spot o'er the lad so brave and true,
In his lonely grave he sleeps in his faded coat of blue.

Long, long years have vanished and though he comes no more,
But my heart will sharply beat with each footfall at my door;
I gazed o'er the hills where he bid his last adieu,
But no gallant lad l see in his faded coat of blue.

No more the bugle calls the weary one,
Rest noble spirit in the grave unknown;
You may know him and find him among the good and true,
Where a robe of white is given for that faded coat of blue.