The Girl I've Left Behind Me

Turn up your speakers.  The song you are listening to is
"The Girl I've Left Behind Me".  Quoting from "A Concise History
of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War" by Daniel Tyler
"On the 29th (July 1846), we passed St. Joseph, then a town of some
importance, in good order, keeping time to the tune of 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,'
and camped one mile outside of the town."

Lyrics:

I'm lonsome since I crossed the hill, And o'er the moor and valley;
Such heavy thoughts my heart do fill, Since parting from my Sally,
I seek no more the fine and gay, For each does but remind me,
How swift the hours did pass away, With the girl I've left behind me.

Oh! ne'er shall I forget the night the stars were bright above me,
and gently lent their silvery light, when first she vowed to love me.
But now I'm bound for Brighton camp, Kind Heaven, then pray guide me,
and send me safely back again to the girl I've left behind me.

My mind shall still her form retain, in sleeping or in waking.
Until I see my love again, for whom my heart is breaking.
If ever I return that way, and she should not decline me,
I ever more will live and stay with the girl I've left behind me.