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Thread #41963   Message #607552
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
10-Dec-01 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: Chords Req: Christmas in the Trenches
Subject: Chords Add: CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
Damn, damn, DAMNED HTML!! Let's try this again...

CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES


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My name is Francis Tolliver,

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I come from Liverpool,

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Two years ago the war was waiting

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For me after school.

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To Belgium and to Flanders

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To Germany to here

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I fought for King and country I love dear.

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'Twas Christmas in the trenches

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Where the frost so bitter hung,

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Frozen fields of France were still,

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No Christmas song was sung,

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Our families back in England

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Were toasting us that day,

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Their brave and glorious lads so far a- way.