"Tell Mother I Die Happy" (1863)
  The last words of LIEUT CROSBY who was
  killed in his battery at Salem Heights in the
  fight of Sunday Evening May 2nd 1863
Song with Chorus
Words by C. A. Vosburch
Music by Jabez Burns

New York, NY: S. T. Gordon, 538 Broadway
[Source: 090/060@Levy]

1.
I am dying, comrades dying,
  As you hear me lightly tread
Soon ah soon I shall be lying
  With the silent sleeping dead
I am dying comrades dying
  Still the battle rages near,
Tell me are our foes a flying,
  I die happy mother dear.

CHORUS
Tell me mother I die happy,
  That for me she must not weep,
Tell her how I long'd to kiss her,
  Ere I sank in death to sleep.

2.
I am going, comrades going,
  See how damp my foreheard's now---
Oh, I see the angels coming,
  With bright garlands for my brow.
Rear this message to my mother,
  How in death that God was near,
He to bless and to support me---
  I die happy mother dear.

(CHORUS)

3.
Lay me comrades, 'neath the willow,
  That grows on the distand shore.
Wrap the starry flag around me,
  I would press its folds once more.
Let the cold earth be my pillow,
  And the "Stars and Stripes" my shroud,
Soon, oh soon I shall be marching,
  Amid the heavenly crowd.

(CHORUS)