Tonalité : Ab major•
Verse 1
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In a station
in the city
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a British soldier stood
Talking to the people there
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if the people would
Some just stared in hatred,
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and oth ers turned in pain
And the lonely British soldier wished
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he was back home again
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Come join the British Army! said
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the posters in his town
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See the world and have your fun,
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come serve before the Crown
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The jobs were hard to come by
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and he could not face the dole
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So he took his country's shilling
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and enlisted on the roll
For there was no fear of fighting,
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the Empire long was lost
Just ten years in the army getting
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paid for being bossed
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Then leave a man experienced a man
who's made the grade
A medal and a pension,
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some mem'ries and a trade
Then came the call to Ireland as
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the call had came before
Another bloody chapter in
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an endless civil war
The priests they stood on both sides
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the priests they stood behind
Another fight in Jesus's name
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the blind against the blind
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The soldier stood between them,
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between the whistling stones
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And then the broken bottles
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that led to broken bones
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The petrol bombs that burnt his hands
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the nails that pierced his skin
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And now wished that he'd stayed
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at home surrounded by his kin
The station filled with people the sol
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dier soon was bored
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But better in the station than where
the people warred
The room filled up with mothers
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with daughters and with sons
Who stared with itchy fingers at
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the soldier and his gun
A yell of fear a screech of brakes
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the shattering of glass
The window of the station broke to
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let the package pass
A scream came from the mothers as
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they ran towards the door
Dragging children crying from
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the bomb upon the floor
The soldier stood and could not move
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his gun he could not use
He knew the bomb had seconds and
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not minutes on the fuse
He could not run to pick it up
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and throw it in the street
There were far too many people there,
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too many running feet
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Take cover! yelled the soldier,
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Take cover for your lives
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And the Ir ishmen threw down their young
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and stood before their wives
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They turned towards the soldier,
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their eyes alive with fear
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For God's sake save our children or they'll
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en d their short lives here
The soldier moved towards the bomb
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his stomach like a stone
Why was this his battle God
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why was he alone
He lay down on the package and he mur
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mured one farewell
To those at home in England
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to those he loved so well
He saw the sights of summer felt the
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wind upon his brow
The young girls in the city parks how pre
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cious were they now
The soaring of the swallow the beau
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ty of the swan
The music of the turning world so
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soon would it be gone
A muffled soft explosion and
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the room began to quake
The soldier blown across the floor
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his blood a crimson lake
They never heard him cry or shout
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they never heard him moan
And they turned their children's faces from
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the blood and from the bones
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The crowd outside soon gathered
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and the ambulances came
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To carry off the body of a pawn
lost to the game
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And the crowd they clapped and cheered
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and they sang their rebel songs
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One sol dier less to interfere
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where he did not belong
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But will the children growing up learn
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at their mothers' knees
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The story of that soldier who
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bought their liberty
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Who used his youthful body as a
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means towards the end
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Who gave his life to those who
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called him murderer not friend
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