The Soldiering Life lyrics
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Artist: The Decemberists Album: Her Majesty
Lyrics
Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms you liken to a whisper I liken to a radio You were a brickbat, a bowery tuff, so rough They culled you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons
But you My brother in arms I'd rather I'd lose my limbs Than let you come to harm
But you My bombazine doll The bullets may singe your skin And the mortars may fall
But i I never felt so much life Than tonight Huddled in the trenches Gazing on the battle field Our rifles blaze away; We blaze away
Corporal bradley of regiment five In proud array standing by the bathing Soldiers and the stevedores We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies Cradled in our dungarees
But you My brother in arms I'd rather I'd lose my limbs Than let you come to harm
But you My bombazine doll The bullets may singe your skin And the mortars may fall
But i I never felt so much life Than tonight Huddled in the trenches Gazing on the battle field Our rifles blaze away; We blaze away We blaze away We blaze away
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