Johnny Boy’s Bones Colter Wall (Ft. The Dead South)

[Intro]
Well, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times, they are not forgotten
Look away, look away, look away
Dixieland

[Verse 1]
Oh, musket and cannon have torn his gray coat
Don't he look fine and handsome?
Don't he look at his most?
For he fought in the foxholes and at this, I will boast
Don't they look fine and handsome?
My poor Johnny Boy's bones

[Chorus]
Well, who will bring back my Johnny Boy's bones
To lay beneath the trees of his Tennessee home
A box, a box made of sturdy white oak
With his arms folded up and his blue eyes all closed

[Verse 2]
Well he died for his country and he died for his kin
And he died killing men, a most honorable sin
But them mean boys in blue, they done turned him in
When they laid him low with a laugh and a grin