------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- -------3---------------3-----------3------------------------- ---3-5---5-3------3-5----5----3-5-----5--3----3-------------- -5------------5-5-----------5---------------5----5--3--1----- ---------------------------------------------------------3--- My name is Marley Peyton, my middle name is Rose I never met nobody from up North I don't suppose But I can sing a song for you, you can sing it too "Twinkle twinkle silver star "Twinkle twinkle silver star "Twinkle twinkle silver star, I will wait for you" I come from Carolina - the middle of this day Got married to a soldier boy in 1968 Or was it '69 now - my memory don't serve me well Oh, oh... Papa he cried for his little girl; Mama she cried for joy Me I lay awake and cry for the love of my soldier boy Some say that he went crazy; some say he was before Mama mama pray for me, Mama mama pray for me Mama mama pray for me, me and my soldier boy Outside the rain comes pouring down Through the rain I hear him call Half-past ten and he wants in Ain't nothin' gonna stop him at all "Oh come to me my soldier, come to me my life Come to me my soldier boy on this our wedding night..." His shadow fills my doorway His weapon in his hand I hear him scream to no one there He'll drop us where we stand And in his eyes a fire burns this village he takes down And from the wall one Silver Star now falls without a sound I hear him pull the trigger They say he felt no pain I left lying where he stood Face down in the pouring rain And on the ground beneath his head a Silver Star does lay And in his fist one single rose from this our wedding day My name is Marley Peyton, my middle name is Rose I never met nobody from up North I don't suppose But I can sing a song for you; you can sing it too "Twinkle twinkle Silver Star Twinkle twinkle Silver Star Twinkle twinkle Silver Star I will wait for you..." From Betty Eldrs "Peaceful Existance" Whistling Pig Records 1993 Words and music copyright ?1993 Betty Elders/ Whistling Pig Music (ASCAP) administered by BUG Music