The Riverside song book/Decoration Day
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DECORATION DAY.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Johann Aegidius Geyer.
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1. Sleep, comrades, sleep, sleep and rest On this Field of the
2. Rest, comrades, rest, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall
3. Your si - lent tents, tents of green. We deck with flowers, with
Ground-ed Arms, Where foes no more molest. Nor sen-try's shot a - larms!
ev - er be As sen-ti-nels to keep Your rest from danger free,
fra - grant flow'rs; Yours has the suf-f'ring been, The mem'ry shall be ours,
Sleep, com-rades, sleep and rest On this Field of the Grounded Arms.
As sen-ti - nels to keep Your rest from dan - ger free.
Yours has the suff - 'ring been. The mem - 'ry shall be ours.