with Ian's spelling help I could locate it (http://x28.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=448257153&CONTEXT=933356001.599261198&hitnum=0). I have copied it from that page.

Wolfgang

THE DESERTER
(Jon Richards)

Here I stand in a land that isn't my own
Far from the country that I know as home
I was sent here by government and armed by a King
And I'm told I must kill men in order to bring
Peace to a foreign land

There he lies in a land that isn't is own
In the grey of a country that he called his own
He was sent there by government and might not agree
And if someone must kill him God why is it me to bring
Peace to a foreign land

Don't despise the deserter, don't despise the deserter
Don't despise the deserter, who ran from the war
Don't despise the deserter, don't despise the deserter
Don't despise the deserter, who ran from the war

I went down to drag him away from the wire
The rifles to the left of me started to fire
He was riddled with bullets, I was smothered in blood
And I can't see how murdering somebody could bring
Peace to a foreign land

Chorus

So I ran from the fighting and threw down my gun
I ran with the moon and slept with the sun
Arrested by government and charged by the King
To be shot 'cos I can't kill in order to bring
Peace to a foreign land

Chorus