He Walked All The Way Home - Blue Highway

1) In the grim and final hour of the War between the States

HeÕd had enough dyinÕ, all the grief that he could take

From the Appamattox Courthouse, where the deed was sadly done

There was no place left for him to go but home

Ch) He walked all the way home to Southampton County

To carry all he owned and try to forget

Wearing sadness like a mantle for the friends he lost in vain

He walked all the way home to start his life again

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2) In the end he knew the reasons but so many had been lost

For years to come the fallen would sleep beneath the cross

What he held in angry silence time could never burn away

It was just the saddest price heÕd ever pay

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3) When he stopped to take some water at a little roadside place

A pretty southern widow sadly looked into his face

As they talked a while, his blue eyes seemed to ease her broken heart

One day he came back and took her home