A Soldier's Return 歌詞
A Soldier's Return - The Wolfe Tones/D. Warfield
I went away to fight a war
That small nations might be free
Got a soldiers guns and uniform to fight the enemy
I was trained to shoot my fellow before he got to me
And I danced with death in the mud and wept
And prayed my home to see
So come over to me darling girl
Come here me Molly dear
You are as welcome as the flowers
In may you're welcome here to me
No more I'll fire the musket shot
Or hear the cannon roar
I've done my time now you'll be mine
I'm yours for ever more
While in the trenches there
I thought who starts these bloody wars
And thought of these great Irishmen
Who died on these strange shores
Then a bomb did burst to the air it trust
Some shrapnel fire and blood
I escaped it then shot back at them
And lay back in the mud
So come over to me darling girl
Come here me Molly dear
You are as welcome as the flowers
In may you're welcome here to me
No more I'll fire the musket shot
Or hear the cannon roar
I've done my time now you'll be mine
I'm yours for ever more
While I was off in foreign lands
Fighting other peoples' wars
Some gallant men were fighting
Here to free their native shore
You shot our leaders of 16
Saw our city sacked and burned
Then you sent us in the Black
And Tans to greet our home return
So come over to me darling girl
Come here me Molly dear
You are as welcome as the flowers
In may you're welcome here to me
No more I'll fire the musket shot
Or hear the cannon roar
I've done my time now you'll be mine
I'm yours for ever more
I don't need your heroes welcome
I don't want your bugle call
No brass band no pipes and drums
No medal badge or star
But give me what you promised me
When first I went to war
That's freedom for old Ireland
And I'll go to fight no more
So come over to me darling girl
Come here me Molly dear
You are as welcome as the flowers
In may you're welcome here to me
No more I'll fire the musket shot
Or hear the cannon roar
I've done my time now you'll be mine
I'm yours for ever more