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A nation mourns her chief
Twine our flag with deaths dark emblem. Mingle crape and laurel leaf. Weep true heart and pay thy homage. See a nation mourn her chief.
WORDS AND MUSIC
H.S. Thompson.
AUTHOR OF LILLY DALE, ANNIE LISLE, MARION LEE, I AM LONELY SINCE MY MOTHER DIED, etc.
3 1/2
St. LOUIS
Published by BALMER & WEBER 56th Foorth St.
26549
A NATION MOURNS HER CHIEF
Words and Music by H. S. Thompson
1V. While a country's heart was throbbing, Full of Joy, for victories won, While the stars and stripes were waving, O'er each cottage, ship and dome; Come upon the winged lightning, Words that turned each joy to dread, Froze with horror, a we listen, Our loved Chiftain Lincoln's dead.
2V. War's dark cloud, that long hung o'er us, Rolled their gloomy folds away, All the world seemed anxious waiting, For the promised, peaceful day, But the fearful blow impending, Fell on his de- -vo- - ted head, And from every town and hamlet, Comes the wail Our Chiftain's dead.
3V. Weep, oh weep poor bleeding nation, For the patriot spir-it fled, All un-told our coun-try's fu-ture, Bur- - - ied whith the silent dead, God of nations, God of bat-tles, To our Coun- - try send re- - lief, Turn be- reavement to a blessing, While we mourn our murder'd Chief.
Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1865 by H.S. Thompson in the Clerks Office of the US Court for the East Dist of Mo.
CHORUS
Twine our flag with death's dark Emblem, twine it, Mingle crape and Laurel-leaf, twine it, Twine our flag with death's dark Emblem, twine it, Mingle crape and laurel-leaf, Weep true heart and pay homage, For a nation mourns her Chief, Weep true heart and pay thy homage, For a nation mourns her Chief, her Chief.