ADD: The Hero's Return (Belfast Song) (Bogle)

12 Dec 97 - 01:42 PM (#17457)
Subject: My youngest son came home today
From:

Hello, I´m looking for the words of the Eric Bogle song "My youngest son cme home today "

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16 Dec 97 - 06:09 AM (#17667)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE HERO'S RETURN (BELFAST SONG) (Bogle)
From: Wolfgang Hell

from the text sheet in my Bogle record "Live in Person" (an aside for Eric Bogle fans: I doubt that this record has ever been on sale outside of Germany, so you will not find any trace of it even in the largest Bogle discographies; but it exists and still is my personal favourite Bogle vinyl):

THE HERO'S RETURN (BELFAST SONG)

My youngest son came home today,
his friends marched with him all the way,
the flutes and drums beat out the time,
as in his box of polished pine,
like dead meat on a butcher's tray,
my youngest son came home today.

My youngest son was a fine young man,
with a wife, a daughter, and two sons,
a man he would have lived and died,
till by a bullet sanctified.
Now he's a saint, or so they say,
they brought their saint home today.

Above the bombed and battered streets,
the lowering sky looks down and weeps,
oh children's blood in gutters spilled,
in dreams of freedom unfulfilled,
as part of freedom's price to pay,
my youngest son came home today.

My youngest son came home today,
his friends marched with him all the way,
the flutes and drums beat out the time,
as in his box of polished pine,
like dead meat on a butcher's tray,
my youngest son came home today.

And this time...he's home to stay.

Enjoy it Wolfgang

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16 Dec 97 - 10:28 AM (#17678)
Subject: RE: My youngest son came home today
From: Wolfgang

Sorry about the "enjoy". Sounds totally out of place while rereading. Wolfgang

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