Mick MacConnell in A - Capo 2

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In the year nineteen fourteen on Christmas Day
On the western front the guns all died away
And lying in the mud on bags of sand
We heard the German sing from no mans land
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He had a tenor voice so clear and true
The words were strange but every note we knew
A soaring o'er the living dead and damned
A soldier sang of peace from no mans land

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Oh silent night, no cannon roar
A King is born of peace for evermore
All is calm was bright all brothers hand in hand
A soldier's song of peace from no mans land

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They slowly left their trenches we left ours
Beneath tin hats the smiles bloomed like wild flowers
With photos, cigarettes and flasks of wine
We made the soldiers peace on that front line
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Their singer was a lad of twenty one
We begged another song before the dawn
Sitting amid carnage death and fear
We sang again the song all longed to hear

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In the morning all the guns roared in the rain
And they killed us and we killed them again
Just bayonet, bomb and bullet, gas and flame
And neither them nor us at all to blame
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There was heavy fighting all throughout that day
For one nights peace we bitterly did pay
That night they charged, we fought them hand to hand
And I shot the lad who sang from no man's land

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Oh Silent Night, Holy Night
And his ghostly voice is raised as the young dead soldier sings
Were the captains and the kings built no mans land