I heard this, particularly the opening line, and I thought how sweet with a tragic image that pierces through the more sentimental lyrics about loss and death. This would indeed make a decent funeral song to play at the end of a funeral mass as folks gather and talk before or on their way out of the church. Here are the lyrics.
Beautiful song. Could be the perfect funeral song to play immediately after mass.
“Brother Green” by Connie Dover, 2000, is an American Civil War folk song which tells the story of the soldiers of Irish descent who served on both sides of the conflict, men who had crossed the Atlantic as comrades and were now fighting as enemies. Connie Dover, who sings the lyrics, was also responsible for the arrangement of the melody, adapted from the song Barbry Ellen.
