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For all 'old soldiers' and those

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Rambling

Rambling Report 26 Aug 2010 10:53

I liked it so much I sent for the cd :) which came today so I've amended a little ...I do love it when lyrics are enclosed!

xx

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Rambling

Rambling Report 23 Aug 2010 22:10

lyrics amended slightly , thanks to Susan with numbers :)

I'm glad you liked it Stephen :))

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 23 Aug 2010 00:33

We can't hope to understand how the horrors of war affected them, can we?

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

Rambling

Rambling Report 22 Aug 2010 23:05

nudge :)

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Rambling

Rambling Report 22 Aug 2010 00:03

who remember them. A little piece of perfection :)

'Flowers in Winter'

"The photograph is so familiar
I know its details through and through
It’s just a piece of memorabilia
And yet I see it now as new
A handsome boy of barely twenty
So grown up and yet so raw
The face so bright with hope in plenty
a handsome boy who fought a war


But speak my heart I can’t begin to
For the words I can’t compose
An old man loved is flowers in winter
Daddy you're my Christmas rose

The photograph has scarcely faded
But the man is sorely changed
He finds it hard to walk unaided
For youth and he are long estranged
And yet these eyes that saw such sorrow
Never flinch and shine the same
Ah nature lends and we but borrow
For a while this mortal frame

But speak my heart I cant begin to
For the words I can’t compose
An old man loved is flowers in winter
Daddy you're my Christmas rose

The world he fought for
Is passing from us
And stronger values move off stage
I am but weak, a doubting Thomas
Just a product of my age
This life of ours is less distinguished
We stand in awe of such esprit
And when that courage is extinguished
Then we shall all the poorer be.

But speak my heart I can’t begin to
For the words I can’t compose
An old man loved is flowers in winter
Daddy you're my Christmas rose"

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