To My Dearest Wife - Lucero

Waitin' on the sunrise, I’ve given up on sleep

My only thoughts are with you all back home in Tennessee

They’re dug in on the hilltop, we got cover in the trees

Between the two, an open field that looks like hell to me

And to my dearest wife I write

Kiss our baby girls tonight

Tomorrow’s battle will not wait

But I don’t see no other way

I can see the old house not too long ago

Every night I slept by your side, heaven just bein' home

Can hear 'em callin' Reveille, I can see the sun

It breaks my heart we’re kept apart, still fightin' to be done

To my dearest wife I write

Kiss our baby girls tonight

Tomorrow’s battle will not wait

But I don’t see no other way

Mine eyes have seen the glory

The glory of the comin' of the Lord

And he is tramplin' out the vintage

The vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

Now the sun is risen, you mean the world to me

My thoughts was turned to work at hand far from Tennessee

They’re dug in on the hilltop, we leave the cover of the trees

We’ll march across that open field that looks like hell to me

To my dearest wife I write

Kiss our baby girls tonight

Tomorrow’s battle will not wait

But I don’t see no other way

The bride of war wears blood and fire

Hand-in-hand, death walks beside her

We’ll cross the field, lay all to waste

I don’t see no other way

To my dearest wife I write

Kiss our baby girls tonight