Round her neck she wore a yellow ribbon

She wore it in the winter and the merry month of May

When I asked her,

"Why the yellow ribbon?"

She said, "It’s for my lover who is in the

Cavalry" Cavalry (Cavalry), Cavalry (Cavalry)

She said, "It’s for my lover who is in the Cavalry"

Cavalry (Cavalry), Cavalry (Cavalry) She said,

"It’s for my lover in the U.S. Cavalry"

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It’s lonely since I left the hill

And crossed the moor and valley

Such heavy thoughts my heart does fill

Since parting from my Sally.

I care not for the fine nor gay

They serve but to remind me

How swift the hours did pass away

With the girl I left behind me.

 

 

She says: “My love come home to me

My friends are rich and many

Or else abroad with you I’ll roam

A soldier stout as any.

If you’ll not come or let me go

I’ll think you have resigned me.”

It broke my heart to answer “No”

To the girl I left behind me.

 

 

For never shall my true love brave

A life of war and toiling

And never as a skulking slave

I’ll tread my native soil on.

But someday I’ll return again

If the rebels they don’t find me

And never will I roam again

From the girl I left behind me.