“ Chorus:—Home, boys, home in our own country;
Chorus:—Where the sugar and the cotton and the old orange tree,
Chorus:—They are all growing green in the Southern country.
The days of my boyhood have glided away,
While those of my manhood have bloomed into day;
And now the Yankees my freedom deny,
I for one will repulse them or fight till I die.
Chorus:—And it’s home, boys, home, &c.
I left the refinements and comforts of life,
Through dangers of bloodshed, privations of life
I have counted the cost, I have plighted my word,
I have shouldered my musket and belted my sword. ”

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