Misc Traditional – A Soldiers Return (Guitar)

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I went away to fight a war that small nations might be free

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Got a soldiers guns and uniform to fight the enemy

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I was trained to shoot my fellow before he got to me

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And I danced with death in the mud and wept and prayed my home to see.

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So come over to me darling girl come here me Molly dear.

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You are as welcome as the flowers in May you're welcome here to me.

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No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar

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I've done my time, now you'll be mine I'm yours forever more.

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While in the trenches there I thought who starts these bloody-wars

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And thought of these great Irishmen who died on these strangeshores

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Then a bomb did burst to the air it trust some shrapnel fire and blood

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I escaped it then shot back at them and lay back in the mud.

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So come over to me darling girl come here me Molly dear.

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You are as welcome as the flowers in May you're welcome here to me.

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No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar

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I've done my time, now you'll be mine I'm yours forever more.

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While I was off in foreign lands, fighting other peoples' wars

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Some gallant men were fighting here to free their native shore

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You shot our leaders of 16 saw our city sacked and burned

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Then you sent us in the Black and Tans to greet our homereturn.

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So come over to me darling girl come here me Molly dear.

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You are as welcome as the flowers in May you're welcome here to me.

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No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar

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I've done my time, now you'll be mine I'm yours forever more.

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I don't need your heroes welcome I don't want your bugle call

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No brass band no pipes and drums, no medal badge or star

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But give me what you promised me when first I went to war

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That's freedom for old Ireland and I'll go to fight no more.

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So come over to me darling girl come here me Molly dear.

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You are as welcome as the flowers in May you're welcome here to me.

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No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar

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I've done my time, now you'll be mine I'm yours forever more.