Willie Has Gone to War

"Willie Has Gone To War" is a song written by Stephen Collins Foster sometime in 1862.

[2] He may have composed up to 285 songs, hymns, arrangements and instrumental works during his lifetime.

[3] The bluebird is singing his lay, To all the sweet flow'rs of the dale, The wild bee is reaming at play, And soft is the sigh of the gale; I stray by the brookside alone, Where oft we have wander'd before, And weep for my lov'd one, my own, My Willie has gone to the war!

'Twas here, where the lily bells grow, I last saw his noble young face, And now while he's gone to the foe, Oh!

Chorus: The leaves of the forest will fade, The roses will wither and die, But spring to our home in the glade On fairy like pinions will fly; And still I will hopefully wait The day when these battles are o'er, And pine like a bird for its mate, Till Willie comes home from the war!