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Thread #85208   Message #2850531
Posted By: GUEST,Lady Nancy
26-Feb-10 - 03:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Remembrance Day songs
Subject: Lyr Add: TENDER COMRADE (Billy Bragg)
Try Tender Comrade, written by Billy Bragg:

What will you do when the war is over, tender comrade
When we lay down our weary guns
When we return home to our wives and families
And look into the eyes of our sons

What will you say of the bond we had, tender comrade
Will you say that we were brave
As the shells fell all around us
Or that we wept and cried for our mothers
And cursed our fathers
For forgetting that all men are brothers

Will you say that we were heroes
Or that fear of dying among strangers
Tore our innocence and false shame away
And from that moment on deep in my heart I new
That I would only give my life for love.

Brothers in arms, in each others arms
Was the only time that I was not afraid.
What will you do when the war is over, tender comrade
When we cast off these khaki clothes
And go our separate ways
What will you say of the bond we had,
Tender Comrade?

Totally cracking song. LN