Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Eilif (Song About the Soldier and His Wife), artist - Duke Special. Album song Duke Special Presents the Songs From Mother Courage and Her Children, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 27.02.2010
Record label: Adventures In Gramophone
Song language: English
Eilif (Song About the Soldier and His Wife) |
Your gun is precise, and your bayonet’s nice |
But the ice on the river won’t hold you |
You’ll drown in a trice if you march on the ice |
And lonely, cold death shall enfold you |
Thus spoke his wife as he whetted his knife |
Hoisting his pack, he said marching is my life |
For when you’re marching no woman can scold you |
We’re marching into Poland, then we’re marching off to Spain |
With your bayonet sharpened |
With your sharp bayonet you’ve no need to explain |
For there’s no woman who’s ever controlled you |
When you’re marching no woman |
When you’re marching no woman can scold you |
Oh, bitter her tears, she was younger in years |
Wiser than he, so she told him |
March off if you must, they will all come to dust |
For only a coffin shall hold him |
Off goes her man, he will write when he can |
And women have wept since the world first began |
And how the sound of her sorrow consoled him |
With the moon on the shingles, I see white on the snow |
Goodbye to your husband |
So long to your husband, and then back home you’ll go |
Where you will wait for the fate you foretold him |
You will wait for the fate |
You will wait for the fate you foretold him |
It isn’t a joke, your life is like smoke |
And someday you will wish you had tarried |
How quickly you’ll fall, oh God help us all |
A soldier should never get married |
He tumbled the dice, and he soon paid the price |
They gave him his orders to march on the ice |
And then the water rose up all around him |
And the water rose up and it drowned him |
Through Poland, through Spain, his poor wife searched in vain |
But he’d vanished: she never found him |
He was gone and his wife |
He was gone and his wife |
He was gone and his wife never found him |
Oh she never found him |