
Date of issue: 11.03.2012
Song language: English
The Soldiering Life |
Ambling madly all over the town |
The call to arms you liken to a whisper, |
I liken to a radio. |
You were a brickbat, a bowery tuff, so rough |
They culled you from a cartoon |
Pulled out of your pantaloons. |
But you, |
My brother in arms, |
I’d rather I’d lose my limbs |
Than let you come to harm. |
But you, |
My bombazine doll, |
The bullets may singe your skin |
And the mortars may fall. |
But I, |
I never felt so much life |
Than tonight |
Huddled in the trenches, |
Gazing on the battle field, |
Our rifles blaze away; |
We blaze away. |
Corporal Bradley of regiment five |
In proud array standing by the bathing |
Soldiers and the stevedores. |
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep |
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies |
Cradled in our dungarees. |
But you, |
My brother in arms, |
I’d rather I’d lose my limbs |
Than let you come to harm. |
But you, |
My bombazine doll, |
The bullets may singe your skin |
And the mortars may fall. |
But I, |
I never felt so much life |
Than tonight |
Huddled in the trenches, |
Gazing on the battle field |
Our rifles blaze away; |
We blaze away. |
We blaze away. |
We blaze away. |
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Sons & Daughters | 2016 |
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One Engine | 2011 |
Philomena | 2015 |
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Summersong | 2016 |
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