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Lyr Req: Tunes of Glory (Pete St. John)

29 Apr 01 - 04:35 PM (#451662)
Subject: Sweet lord I was just seven
From: GUEST,BB Jim

Help I have some words to the Chorus but not the verses.

Chorus Sweet lord I was just seven When margaret was eleven They gave us war for breakfast And ????? songs for tea Our fathers out ?????? Its a way of not explaining etc

If you know it please Help

29 Apr 01 - 05:53 PM (#451690)
Subject: Lyr Add: TUNES OF GLORY (Pete St. John)
From: bill\sables

TUNES OF GLORY

My father went away and the band played tunes of glory,
A mighty man with ribbons and the devil's dignity,
A regimental sergeant the backbone of the Empire,
For God and righteous glory bound for High Germany.

Sweet Lord, I was just seven when Margaret was eleven.
They served us war for breakfast and the soldier's songs for tea.
"Your father's gone campaigning" was a way of not explaining
That soldiers are the living proof of our inhumanity.

My childhood passed away 'mid tales and lurid stories
Of manufactured glories and inhuman gallantry.
I asked when war is over but no one deemed to answer me,
And Margaret played that bloody tune called High Germany.

My father he came home, but he came without his reason,
Two eyes of molten madness, a senseless fool of war.
"He's just a child," my mother cried, "to be dressed in full regalia
And paraded as a soldier bold from high Germany."

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 13-May-02.

29 Apr 01 - 06:07 PM (#451702)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet lord I was just seven
From: Haruo

Who's it by? Tune? Recordings?

Liland

29 Apr 01 - 09:47 PM (#451851)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet lord I was just seven
From: Susanne (skw)

Written by Pete St. John; recorded by Iain MacKintosh on 'Just My Cup of Tea' (on an obscure German label) in 1991, by Arthur Johnstone (who calls it 'Margaret and Me') on 'North By North' in 1989, as well as (iirr) by The Dubliners and other more famous people.

30 Apr 01 - 04:19 PM (#452340)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet lord I was just seven
From: GUEST,Big Jim

Thanks to everyone who replied and contributed to my request. In particular bill/sables for posting the words. Must come here more often.