Charleston (Ft. Drew Brody)
i am old, i am weary
\r\nand i'm coming home to die
\r\nwould you bury me by the old oak tree
\r\n'tween the river and the Ashley
\r\noh charleston, won't you bury me
\r\n
\r\ni'm the daughter of a merchant
\r\nclaimed the seabrook line
\r\nlost his spirit to the crash of '29
\r\nleft my family bound for europe on the adeline
\r\npacked my things and left my mom and dad behind
\r\n
\r\nthere the churches spot the skyline in an endless dawn
\r\nand on rainbow row we'd walk the waterfront
\r\nthere he told me he would take me
\r\nbut it could not be
\r\nso i left the man i loved in charleston
\r\n
\r\ni am old, i am weary
\r\nand i'm coming home to die
\r\nwould you bury me by the old oak tree
\r\n'tween the river and the Ashley
\r\noh charleston, won't you bury me
\r\n
\r\nbusted galleys, sick dead soldiers
\r\nfound a navy man
\r\nwrote the queen to have him stay his term with me
\r\nI love my husband and my children but these my final days
\r\nI am weary, and charleston calls to me
\r\n
\r\nnow I see its painted porches
\r\nall the lazy noons
\r\nsipping tea until the evening came
\r\nand the graveyard where my father lay his southern bones
\r\nI can hear them now the church bells sing my name
\r\n
\r\ni am old, i am weary
\r\nand i'm coming home to die
\r\nwould you bury me by the old oak tree
\r\n'tween the river and the Ashley
\r\noh charleston, won't you bury me
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