"Write A Letter To My Mother" lyrics - CHARLIE POOLE

Raise me in your arms, my brother
Let me see the glorious sun
I am very faint and dying
How's the battle, lost or won?
I remember you, my brother
Sent to me that fatal dart
Brothers fighting against brother
'Tis well, 'tis well that us depart

Write a letter to my mother
Send it when her boy is dead
That he perished by his brother
Not a word of that be said

Father's fighting for the Union
You may meet him on the field
Would you raise your arm to smite him
Or would you bid that father yield?
He who loved us in our childhood
Taught the evening prayers we said
Brother, take from me a warning
I'll soon be numbered with the dead