[00:00.000] 作曲 : Traditional Song
[00:19.265]We shall meet but we shall miss him.
[00:24.022]There will be one vacant chair.
[00:28.788]We shall linger to caress him
[00:33.552]While we breathe our ev’ning prayer.
[00:38.324]When one year ago we gathered,
[00:43.365]Joy was in his mild blue eye.
[00:48.125]Now the golden cord is severed,
[00:52.886]And our hopes in ruin lie.
[00:57.652]We shall meet, but we shall miss him.
[01:02.413]There will be one vacant chair.
[01:07.449]We shall linger to caress him
[01:12.216]While we breathe our ev’ning prayer.
[01:17.541]At our fireside, sad and lonely,
[01:22.584]Often will the bosom swell
[01:27.623]At remembrance of the story
[01:32.663]How our noble Willie fell.
[01:37.436]How he strove to bear the banner
[01:42.467]Thro’ the thickest of the fight
[01:47.511]And uphold our country’s honor
[01:52.268]In the strength of manhood’s might.
[01:57.020]We shall meet, but we shall miss him.
[02:02.055]There will be one vacant chair.
[02:07.087]We shall linger to caress him
[02:12.123]While we breathe our ev’ning prayer.
[02:17.163]True, they tell us wreaths of glory
[02:22.203]Evermore will deck his brow,
[02:26.954]But this soothes the anguish only,
[02:31.993]Sweeping o’er our heartstrings now.
[02:36.745]Sleep today, O early fallen,
[02:41.778]In thy green and narrow bed.
[02:46.539]Dirges from the pine and cypress
[02:51.296]Mingle with the tears we shed.
[02:56.327]We shall meet, but we shall miss him.
[03:01.374]There will be one vacant chair.
[03:06.414]We shall linger to caress him
[03:11.462]While we breathe our ev’ning prayer.