Call Out The Cavalry

Intro: Not another foot was stirring on the floor of the house except for my 'pa who'd been up for a while Seems he's headin' on after the bad word that came, of his brothers who marched but were left down all slain Please call out the cavalry Send them along For we need our daddy, and so does this farm Mama stays awake to pray, in a lonely straw bed and we rise before the sun with the work that he left He took what mama made him to feed him on his way he kissed all my brothers, my sisters, and me he held my poor mama, looked down and said, "Son, I'll be home soon, now hand me my coat and my gun." Please call out the cavalry Send them along For we need our daddy and so does this farm Mama stays awake to pray in a lonely straw bed and we rise before the sun with the work that he left It's been some days without him, but we've toiled away hang onto the cattle and the crops that we've laid mama sits by the window and stares until dark and rocks by the fire and cries out her heart Please call out the cavalry Send my man home For we need our daddy and so does this farm mama stays awake to pray, in a lonely straw bed and we rise before the sun, for the work that you left been about a year since my daddy had gone when I saw an old carriage, and a coat I'd once known it was draped o'er a man who once stood proud and tall now broken and battered and missing an arm he cried when he saw us, and the words they came slow of the sunrise he found and the hell that he'd known he asked for forgiveness for failing us all his duty cut short, in the battle he lost We said, "don't mind that daddy, for now you are home, now mama cries for joy, and she won't sleep alone. You've sons and you've daughters, now please use our arms." Now rise before the sun, for the work to be done.