Songs When Your Winning

		FOREIGN FAREWELLS THERE'S A SADNESS IN MY EYES WHICH I DON'T HAVE TO HIDE MY FINE FRIEND AND A BULLET LODGED IN MY HEART COULD NOT INCREASE THESE PAINS I'M FEELING BUT WE'VE PLANNED MY FAREWELL AND I JUST CAN'T BEAR THIS HANGING ABOUT I THINK THE FRIENDSHIP WE'VE BUILT HAS SEEN ITS FAIR SHARE OF BLEEDING LIKE THAT DAY IN WAR AFTER THAT BLOODY CANNON ROARED I REMEMBER THE BOYS WERE SCREAMING ALOUD "I THINK THEY'RE ALL DEAD!" BUT PRAYERS HEALED OUR WOUNDS WELL.. THAT'S WHAT THE OTHER BOYS SAID SO AU REVOIR MY FRIEND ADIOS AMIGOS YOU'VE TOLD ALL OUR BRAVE TALES AND OH HOW I'VE LAUGHED AT YOUR LIES AUF WIEDERSEHEN MY FRIEND IT'S HIGH TIME WE SHOOK HANDS AND I WAS LOOKING LIKE I WAS LEAVING I WISH I COULD SEE MY FOREIGN FAREWELLS SHINE WIDE INSIDE YOUR EYES NOW LET'S SAY A PRAYER TO THE OTHER BOYS BOYS WHO FELL IN HELL WITHOUT SAYING THEIR GOODBYES THERE'S A SINCERITY IN YOUR SMILE WHICH PLEASES ME MY FINE FRIEND AND THE PAINS I'M FEELING DEEP INSIDE ARE AT LAST BEGINNING THEIR EASING BUT BEFORE I TAKE MY LEAVE WILL YOU LISTEN TO MY ACHING HEART TALK TO CEMENT THE FRIENDSHIP WE'VE BUILT DESPITE ALL THE BLEEDING AFTER THAT BLOODY CANNON ROARED I SWEAR I SAW THE LORD AND THERE WASN'T A STRETCHER FOR THE BREATHING THERE WERE TOO MANY DEAD YET A BOY WHO'D LOST HIS EYES STILL FOUND ME WELL.. THAT'S WHAT THE OTHER BOYS SAID SO AU REVOIR MY FRIEND ADIOS AMIGOS YOU'VE TOLD ALL OUR BRAVE TALES AND OH HOW I'VE LAUGHED AT YOUR LIES AUF WIEDERSEHEN MY FRIEND IT'S HIGH TIME WE SHOOK HANDS AND I WAS LOOKING LIKE I WAS LEAVING I WISH I COULD SEE MY FOREIGN FAREWELLS SHINE WIDE INSIDE YOUR EYES NOW LET'S SAY A PRAYER TO THE OTHER BOYS BOYS WHO FELL IN HELL WITHOUT SAYING THEIR GOODBYES Foreign Farewells is a story of two boy Desert Rats who formed part of that glorious pilgrimage from El Alamein to Berlin. As old men, one used to let his pint over-stretch his feet and his mate forever howled at his pals enthusiasm to war. BACK TO LYRICS INDEX


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