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It was just before dawn

One miserable morning in black 'forty four.

When the forward commander

Was told to sit tight

When he asked that his men be withdrawn.

And the Generals gave thanks

As the other ranks held back

The enemy tanks for a while.

And the Anzio bridgehead

Was held for the price

Of a few hundred ordinary lives.

And kind old King George

Sent Mother a note

When he heard that father was gone.

It was, I recall,

In the form of a scroll,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">With gold leaf adorned,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And I found it one day

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">A <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">nd my eyes still grow damp to remember

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">His Majesty signed

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">With his own rubber stamp.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">It was dark all around.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">There was frost in the ground

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">When the tigers broke free.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And no one survived

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">They were all left behind,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Most of them dead,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The rest of them dying.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">And that's how the High Command

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Took my daddy from me.

"Oh, for fadoodle's sake...stop letting off fireworks and shouting and screaming...I'm trying to sing a song! I mean, I don't care. If you don't wanna hear, you know, fadoodle ya. I'm sure there's a lot of people who DO want to hear it, so why don't you keep quiet and...You want to let your fireworks off, go outside and let them off there...and if you want to shout and scream and holler, go and do it out there, but...I'm trying to sing a song that some people want to listen to! I want to listen to it!"

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">What shall we use to

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">f <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">ill the empty spaces

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Where waves of hunger roar? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Shall we set out across the sea of faces <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">In search of more

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">and more​

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">applause? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Shall we buy a new guitar?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Shall we drive a more powerful car? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Shall we work straight through the night? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Shall we get into fights? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Leave the lights on? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Drop bombs?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Do tours of the east?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Contract diseases? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Bury bones? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Break up homes? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Send flowers by phone? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Take to drink?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Go to shrinks? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Give up meat? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Rarely sleep?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Keep people as pets? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Train dogs? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Race rats?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Fill the attic with cash? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Bury treasure? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Store up leisure?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">But never relax at all <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">With our backs to the wall.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Good morning Worm your honour

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The crown will plainly show

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The prisoner who now stands before you

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">W <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">as caught red handed showing feelings

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Showing feelings of an almost human nature

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">T <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">his will not do

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">CALL THE SCHOOLMASTER!

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I always said he'd come to no good

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">In the end your honour

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">If they'd let me have my way I could

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Have flayed him into shape

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">B <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">ut my hands were tied

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">The bleeding hearts and artists

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">L <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">et him get away with murder

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Let me hammer him today

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Crazy toys in the attic I am crazy

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">T <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">ruly gone fishing

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">They must have taken my marbles away

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Crazy toys in the attic he is crazy

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">You little shizzle, you're in it now

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">I hope they throw away the key

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">You should talked to me more often

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Than you did, but no! you had to g <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">o your own way.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">Have you broken any homes up lately?

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:center;">"Just five minutes Worm your honour him and me alone"



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