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Lyrics for 1917 by Emmylou Harris:
| | | Artist: | Emmylou Harris |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | 1917 | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 83 | | | | Lyrics: | The strange young man who comes to me
A soldier on a three day spree
He needs one night's
cheap ecstasy
And a woman's arms to hide him
He greets me with a courtly bow
And hides
his pain by acting proud
He drinks too much and he laughs too loud
How can I deny
him.
Let us dance beneath the moon
I'll sing to you 'Claire de Lune'
The morning
always comes too soon
But tonight the war is over
He speaks to me in schoolboy French
Of
a soldiers life inside a trench
Of the look of death and the ghastly stench
I do my best to
please him
He puts two roses in a vase
Two roses sadly out of place
Like the
gallant smile on his haggard face
Playfully I tease him
Hold me neath the Paris
skies
Let's not talk of how or why
Tomorrow's soon enough to die
But tonight the war is
over
We make love too hard too fast
He falls asleep his face a mask
He wakes with the
shakes and he drinks from his flask
I put my arms around him
They die in the trenches
and they die in the air
In Belguim and France the dead are everywhere
They die so so fast
there's no time to prepare
A decent grave to surround them
Old world glory old world
fame
The old worlds gone gone up in flames
Nothing will ever be the same
And nothing
lasts forever
Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how
And there's nothing nothing that
can save him now
There's always another with the same funny bow
And who am I to deny
them
Lux aeterna Luce-at e-is
Domine cum sanctic tu-is in aeternum
Qui-a pius
es
Requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine
Qui-a pius es
Requiem aeternaum dona e-is
Domine
Qui-a pius es
Et lux perpetua luce-at- e-is Cum sancris tu-is in-acap | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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