Johnny’s Coat of the Blue and the Gray
Submitted by Teresa Salyer
Well, Mam held him in her arms
Though he could not say
Oh, Mam don’t you weep for
Your Johnny boy
I’m coming home
I’ll fight until the end
Till my grave I’m laid
For my mother’s pride is sewn
Into this coat
Of the blue and the gray
They threw Johnny’s coat in the dirt
At his mother’s feet
And they left him there to die
‘Neath that old sycamore
Well, he fought until the end
Till his grave he was laid
and his mother’s tears were shed
Over that coat of the blue and the gray.
Well, she wore that coat picking tobacco
And she wore that coat come a rain
And she wore that coat till
She was give out
It would do she said
For he fought until the end
Till his grave he was laid
And his mother’s love is still sewn
Into that coat of the blue and the gray
Awesome
