When the Master Calls the Roll
Rosanne Cash

Girl with hair of flaming red

Seeking perfect lover

For to lie down on her feather bed

Soul secrets to uncover

Must be gentile, must be strong

With disposition sunny

Just as faithful as the day is long

And careful with his money

And so the open letter read

The news boy did deliver

Three months later plans were made to wed

Down by the King James river

Know the season may come

Know the season may go

When love is joined together

With whoever be made whole

When the master calls the roll

Oh my darling will you leave?

Take me to the altar

I don't have strength to watch you as you leave

But my love will never fault her

Oh my darling Marry Anne

The march to war is calling

Somewhere far across these southern lands

The bands of brothers falling

My tender bride, the tides demand

That I leave you with your mother

With my father's riffle in one hand

Your locket in the other

Know the season may come

Know the season may go

Beware the storm clouds gather

Take heat in warm of soul

When the master calls the roll

But can this union be preserved?

The soldier boy was crying

I will never travel back to her

But not for lack of trying

It's a love of one true heart at last

That made the boy a hero

But a riffle ball and a cannon blast

Cut him down to zero

Oh Virginia once I came

I'll see you when I'm younger

And I'll know you by your hills again

This town from 6 feet under

Know the season may come

Know the season may go

A man is torn asunder

But someday we may know

When the master calls the roll

Though the storm clouds gather

Let the union be made whole

When the master calls the roll


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Lyrics by Rosanne Cash

  0:71   44 Stories   50,000 Watts   500 Miles   A Feather's Not A Bird   A Lover Is Forever [Live]   Ain't No Money   All Come True   All Come True [*]   Angels With Guns   April 5th   Baby, Better Start Turnin' 'em Down   Baby, Better Start TurninEm Down   Baby, We Can Be Friends   Beautiful Pain   Beautiful Pain (With Sheryl Crow)   Big River   Biloxi   Black Cadillac   Blue Moon With Heartache   Burn Down This Town   Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow   Can I Still Believe in You   Change Partners   Closer Than I Appear   Closing Time   Cry of a Tiny Babe   D-I-V-O-R-C-E   Dance With The Tiger   Down On Love   Dreams Are Not My Home   Fire Of The Newly Alive   From The Ashes   Girl From The North Country   Good Intent   Halfway House   Heartaches by the Number   Hold On   Hometown Blues   Hope Against Hope   House On The Lake   I Count the Tears   I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me   I Look For Love   I Still Miss Someone   I Want A Cure   I Was Watching You   I Wonder   I'll Change For You   I'm Movin' On   I'm Only Sleeping   If There's A God On My Side   If You Change Your Mind   It Came Upon a Midnight Clear   It Came Upon a Midnight Clear [#]   It Came Upon the Midnight Clear   It Hasn't Happened Yet   Jackson   Land of Dreams   Land of Nightmares   Last Stop Before Home   Like A Wave   Like Fugitives   Long Black Veil   Looking For A Corner   Lover Is Forever   Man Smart (Woman Smarter)   Man Smart, Woman Smarter   Mirror Image   Miss The Mississippi and You   Modern Blue   Money Road   Motherless Children   My Baby Thinks He's A Train   My Old Man   My Secret Life   Never Alone   Never Be You   Never Gonna Hurt   Night School   Not a Second Time   Oh Yes I Can   On The Inside   On The Surface   One Step Over the Line   Our Little Angel   Our Little Angel [#]   Paralyzed   Pink Bedroom   Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends   Radio Operator   Real Woman   Right Or Wrong   River   Roses In The Fire   Rosie Strike Back   Rules Of Travel   Runaway Train   Runaway Train [Live][#][*]   Save the Country   Sea of Heartbreak   Second to No One   September When It Comes   seven year ache   Seven Year Ache [Single Version]   Seventh Avenue   She's Got You   Silver Wings   Sleeping In Paris   Somewhere in the Stars   Take Me, Take Me   Take These Chains from My Heart   Tears Falling Down   Tell Heaven   Tennessee Flat Top Box   The Long Way Home   The Summer I Read Collette   The Sunken Lands   The Truth About You   The Unfaithful Servant   The Way We Make a Broken Heart   The Way We Make a Broken Heart [*]   The Wheel   The World Unseen   Third Rate Romance   Thoughts From The Train   Three Steps Down   Two Girls   We Can Do What We Like   Western Wall   What We Really Want   Wheel   Wildwood Flower   Will You Remember Me   World Without Sound   You Don't Know Me   You Won't Let Me In   Your Southern Heart

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