F C Dm C Bb Gm C

[Verse 1]
       F                           C
In the grim and final hour, of the War between the States
   Dm              C          Bb
He had enough dying, all the grief that he could take
         F                                C              Dm     C
From the Appamattox Courthouse, where the deed was sadly done
          Bb                                 C     *
There was no place left for him, to go but home

[Chorus]
          F                   Bb          F
He walked all the way home to Southampton County
                Dm   C    Bb      C
To carry all he owned and try to forget
        F              Am             Dm         Bb
Wearing sadness like a mantle for the friends he lost in vain
          F                   C               F
He walked all the way home to start his life again

[Verse 2]
                                       C
In the end he knew the reasons, but so many had been lost
      Dm                    C       Bb
For years to come the fallen, would sleep beneath the cross
        F                                 C            Dm     C
What he held in angry silence, time could never burn away
       Bb                                C     *
It was just the saddest price, he'd ever pay

[Chorus]
          F                   Bb          F
He walked all the way home to Southampton County
                Dm   C    Bb      C
To carry all he owned and try to forget
        F              Am             Dm         Bb
Wearing sadness like a mantle for the friends he lost in vain
          F                   C               F
He walked all the way home to start his life again

[Solo]
C Dm C Bb F C Dm C Bb Gm C

[Verse 3]
                                          C
When he stopped to take some water, at a little roadside place
   Dm                                  C          Bb
A pretty southern widow, sadly looked into his face
                  F                             C                 Dm     C
As they talked a while his blue eyes, seemed to ease her broken heart
          Bb    Gm                C     *
One day he came back and took her home

[Chorus]
          F                   Bb          F
He walked all the way home to Southampton County
                Dm   C    Bb      C
To carry all he owned and try to forget
        F              Am             Dm         Bb
Wearing sadness like a mantle for the friends he lost in vain
          F                   C               F
He walked all the way home to start his life again

[Outro]
          F                    C              F
He walked all the way home to start his life again