Rogues Bard - Songs - Eternal Soldier

ETERNAL SOLDIER

Was it really just a week ago
I was dancing with my teenage bride
Everyone so happy as the drummer played his tune
Looking towards our future years
The sound of laughter filled our ears
Listening to Vera (George And Tony ?)and her patriotic song

What a load of bloody lies she sang
We’ll never meet again my teenage bride and I
I’m only twenty one years old I wont get any older now
I’m life’s eternal cannon fodder
Death's eternal soldier

No one singing here my boys no-one ever rests
Upon Death mountain.
The only rattle is in men’s chests
The only song is the song of death
And it’s over the top over the top
Over the top again.
Over the top over the top over the top again.

In distant life I hear the piper call his plaintive tune
Stirring up his broken men into deaths pot once more
There’s many lives I’ve died here fighting futile bloody wars
It started with the poppy fields I don’t know where this time
They laid me down in Flanders fields as darkness filled my eyes
And its over the top over the top over the top again

What a load of bloody lies they sang
We’ll never meet again my teenage bride and I
I’m only twenty one years old I wont get any older now
I’m life’s eternal cannon fodder
Death's eternal soldier.

In distant life I hear the the piper call his plaintive tune
I wont be going with him .. Death beats his welcome drum
Darkness floods my eyes again silence fills my mind
There are no butterflies this time goodbye my teenage bride
And it’s over the top over the top over the top again
Over the top over the top over the top again,