| Lyrics: | What was sent to the soldiers wife
From the ancient city of Prague ?
From Prague came a pair
of high heeled shoes,
With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
From the ancient city of
Prague.
What was sent to the soldiers wife
From Oslo over the sound ?
From Oslo he
sent her a collar of fur,
How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
From Oslo over the
sound.
What was sent to the soldiers wife
From the wealth of Amsterdam ?
From
Amsterdam, he got her a hat,
She looked sweet in that,
In her little Dutch hat
From the
wealth of Amsterdam.
What was sent to the soldiers wife
From Brussels in Belgian land
?
From Brussels he sent her the laces so rare
To have and to wear,
All those laces so
rare
From Brussels in Belgian land.
What was sent to the soldiers wife
From Paris,
city of light ?
From Paris he sent her a silken gown,
It was ended in town, that silken
gown,
From Paris, city of light.
What was sent to the soldiers wife
From the
South, from Bucharest ?
From Bucharest he got her this shirt
Embroidered and pert, that
Rumanian shirt
From the South, from Bucharest.
What was sent to the soldiers
wife
From the far-off Russian land ?
From Russia there came just a widows veil
For her
dead to bewail in her widows veil
From the far-off Russian land,
From the far-off Russian
land. |
