War Song- Riddle (AR) c.1906 BK 1970 w/music
[From her 1970 book, A Singer and her Songs, with music. This single verse was learned from Emerson Pickens when Granny Riddle was "six or eight years old."
R. Matteson 2013]
War Song- Almeda Riddle (AR) c.1906 BK 1970
Saddled and bridled, and ready for the fray,
He rode away one bright summer's day.
Home came his saddle all bloody to see,
Home came his horse but home never came he.