Her eyes shown like silver hair flowing like the river with a color fair as yellow bright leaf

How an East Virginia daughter of a wealthy Richmond lawyer could love a poor tobacco farmer like me

But we were soon wed together lost in love with each other and I called my darling lover, Bright Leaf

Then one morning brought a letter she was crying as I told her I was drafted to the rebel infantry

Three years debt in service to fighting with no purpose

But to only stay alive till I could see

My little Bright Leaf

My little Bright Leaf

She wrote in every letter she'd love me longer than forever like the mountain Heather that's Evergreen

The thought of her keeps me warm through the bloodshed and the storms I would fight a hundred wars for my Bright Leaf

On the last year in December, cold and hungry from the winter, a letter was delivered unto me

It was from my darling's father writing that his only daughter is waiting in heaven for me

Now I'm running through the pines, I deserted from the lines

They will fire at the very sight of me

I heard shots from the ridgeline felt a sharp pain in my side and beckoned another bullet on my knees

Till the darkness filled my eyes and I could see

My little Bright Leaf

My little Bright Leaf

Her eyes showing like silver hair flowing like the river with a color fairest yellow Bright Leaf