Old Broken Soldier

Eileen McQueen can you tell me

how long it's been since I left for the war

How long it's been since you held me

Promising love for rich or for poor

For better or worse, we said we'd be true

Now I'm back and the bloody war's through

Eileen McQueen I can't tell you

How cold it feels when the battle is done

How bitter the taste of the powder

How empty the face of a comrade cut down

For better or worse we believed it was true

For King and for country: how little we knew

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So lay me down on a deep feather bed

Hold me close and cradle my head

I'm an Old Broken Soldier back from the war

And the way we once loved, I can't love no more

So lay me down on a deep feather bed

Let me taste the sweet of your breath

Your voice is so soft and your words so sweet

So just lay me down and sing me to sleep

Eileen McQueen was I dreaming?

I heard you say it was just like before

I looked in your eyes they were gleaming

With tears of delight, promising more

Of the pleasure we knew every night, every day

Till the bloody war came and took it away

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