The ballad of Lover’s Hill (1962)
A D G D A - A7
Come back my love to Lover’s Hill, I love you now and I always will !
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- A D
I'll wait for you my love until you come to me on Lover's Hill !
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A
1. A hundred years ago two lovers met in vain,
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she
was a southern girl and he was a boy in grey.
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A
The day that they were married
they heard the cannon's roar,
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she
kissed her soldier boy good bye and off he went to war.
A D G D A - A7
Come back my love to Lover’s Hill, I love you now and I always will !
D G D - A D
I'll wait for you my love until you come to me on Lover's Hill !
(orig. moves up half a note
to capo 1st here)
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A
2. He fought with Stonewall Jackson at the battle of Chester Hill,
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and
when the war was over came back to Lovers Hill.
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The story of their love will
live eternally,
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it's
written on their tombstones for every one to see.
A D G D A - A7
Come back my love to Lover’s Hill, I love you now and I always will !
D G D - A A7 D - G -
D
I'll wait for you my love until you come to me on Lover's Hill !
(Terese Brewer)