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Date: 1/13/98; 11:10:06 PM
From: Lunarcreek <Lunarcreek@aol.com>
Subject: Take the News to Mother, the Louvin Bros.


Take the News to Mother
(WR Caloway, Walter Callahan, Homer Callahan)
As recorded by the Louvin Bros.
MCA Inc (ASCAP)
Recorded May 3, 1956

>From the album "Tragic Songs of Life"

E               B                                  E
While the shot and shells were scattering
B                 E
All o'er the battlefield
                  A                                 E
While the boys in France were fighting 
     B                            E
To save their noble flag

Save their flag or give their lives
All for their country and home
They brought him back and heard him say
I can no longer stay

Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Tell her I'm not coming home

Oh tell my darling sweetheart
That her lips I'll kiss no more
For this battlefield is awful
I'm sure I'll see her no more

Now, I'd love to see my mother
Kneeling by the old hearth stone
But I'm in this hell right here on earth
And her prayer I'll hear no more

Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmmmm

B                                       E
Tell her I'm not coming home