had a woman's heart.
I couldn't control my feelin's, but I tried
with all my might,
An' his mother an' me stood a-cryin' till
Bill was out o' sight.
“His mother she often tol' him, when she
knew he was goin' away,
That God would take care o' him, maybe,
if he didn't fergit to pray;
An' on the bloodiest battle-fields, when