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Thread #20281   Message #210770
Posted By: Songster Bob
12-Apr-00 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Where There's Rest for Horse and Man
Subject: Lyr Add: WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN
I have some of the words different from what's in DigiTrad [my changes in brackets]:

WHERE THERE'S REST FOR HORSE AND MAN or HOME LADS HOME

Overseas in India the sun was setting low
With tramp [and creak] and jingle as I heard the gun-teams go
[ ] something seemed to set me a dreaming as I lay
Of my old Hampshire village at the quiet end of day

And it's home, lads home, all among the corn and clover
Home lads home, when the working day is over
Where there's rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
[ ] we'll all go home together at the setting of the sun

Proud thatch with gardens blooming with lily and with rose
The river flowing past them, so quiet as it goes
White fields of oats and barley and the elderflower like [foam]
And the sky a [golden] sunset and the horses going home

Captain [Boxer,] Traveler, I see them all so plain
With tasseled earflaps nodding all along the leafy lane
Somewhere a bird is calling and the swallow flying low
And the lads all sitting sideways and singing as they go

Gone is many a lad now and many a horse gone too
[From] All those lads and horses from [those] green fields [ ] I knew
[Poor] Dick fell at Givenchy and Prince beside the gun
On that red road to glory a mile or two from Munn

[Dead] lads and shadowy horses, I see them all so plain
I see them and I know them and I call them each by name
While riding down from Swanmore with all the West a-glow
And the lads all sitting sideways and singing as they go

And it's home, lads, home, with the sunset on their faces
Home lads, home to those quiet happy places
Where there's rest for horse and man when the longest day is done
And we'll all go home together at the setting of the sun

Sung by David Jones about World War I

[I could be mistaken about the words as I have them, but I suspect one or two of my suggestions is right.]

Bob Clayton

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