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  1. Clifford Hayler said:

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    Can you name this song by Eric Bogle ?

    It's memorial day in the U.S. and I thought that this song by Eric Bogle was most apt.

    Well old friend here I am,
    I told you I'd be back
    As usual mate, I'm bloody late
    It's seventy five years down the track.
    For the last time here I stand
    In this familiar foreign land
    Back with the mates I left behind
    Fixed forever in their time.

    And of all the ghosts of all the boys
    Who haunt this lonely place
    Only one of them wears your cheery grin
    And your Cockney joker's face
    When I drown in old and bloody dreams
    Of helpless young men's dying screams
    I feel your hand give my arm a shake
    And your voice says 'Steady mate'

    And the country that you died for mate,
    You would not know it now
    The future that we dreamed of mate,
    Got all twisted up somehow.
    The peace that we were fighting for,
    The end to stupid, senseless war,
    So it couldn't happen to our kids,
    Well old mate it did.

    But thank you for the gift of years,
    And the flame that brightly burned,
    For the time you bought and the lessons taught,
    Though often wasted and unlearned,
    'Lest we forget' cry the multitude,
    As if I ever, ever could.
    So forgive an old man's tears,
    And thank you for the years.
     
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    lollipop said:

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    Eric Bogle - The Gift of Years
     
  3. Clifford Hayler said:

    Thumbs down Please give a name to these words

    Thank you .....
     
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    you're welcome