Bright Sunny South

To revisit a set of songs I've not been adding to lately, This is a beautiful Southerner song from the Civil War South. This song has a lot of different lyrics so I decided to go for one of my preferred lyrics. If people are interested, I may post another version with all 12 verses! Lyrics Below as Always.

Lyrics:

In the bright sunny south, in peace and content
These days of my boyhood I scarcely have spent
From the deep flowing spring to the broad flowing streams
Ever dear to my memory, sweeter is my dream

I lay aside my confinements and comfort of life
The dangers of warfare, provision and strife
I have come to come close and reply with my word
As I shoulder my rifle, and march to battle’s blurr

My father looked sad as he bid me to part
My mother embraced me with anguish of heart
And my beautiful sister looked pale in her woe
As she hugged me and blessed me, told me to go

Dear father, dear father for me do not weep
I'm a lonesome man and I mean that for to keep
The dangers of war I intend for to share
And for sickness and death I intend to prepare

Dear mother, dear mother for me do not weep
For a mother´s kind voice I ever will keep
You have taught me be brave from a boy to a man
And I'm going in defense of our own native land

Dear sister, dear sister, I'm afeared of your woe
Your grief and your sorrow, they trouble me so
I must be going, for here I cannot stand
I'm going in defense of your own native land

Many thanks to Kaiser Cat Cinema for their rendition which inspired this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NSrv...