Remembrance Day
In your fine green ware I will walk with you tonight
In your raven hair I will find the Summer night
Upon far flung soil I will run you through my head
In my daily toil all the promises are said
For I know the weary can rise again
I know it all from the words you send
I will go, I will go, I will leave the firelight
I will go, I will go, for it’s now the time is right
Chorus:
I will sing a young man’s song
That you would sing on Remembrance Day
I will be the sacrifice
And bells will ring on Remembrance Day
I must leave this land and the hunger that is here
But the place I stand is the one I love so dear
Like a flower in some forest that the world will never see
I will stand so proud for I know what we can be
For I know the weary can rise again
I know it all from the words you send
I will go, I will go, I will leave the firelight
I will go, I will go, for it’s now the time is right
Chorus
This day I will remember you
This way I will always return
This day I will remember you
This way I will always return
Chorus out
Words and music: Stuart Adamson
From the album The Seer
Over the Hills and Far Away
Here’s forty shillings on the drum
For those who volunteer to come,
To ‘list and fight the foe today
Over the hills and far away
Chorus:
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away
When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away
Chorus
If I should fall to rise no more
As many comrades did before
Then ask the pipes and drums to play
Over the hills and far away
Chorus
Then fall in lads behind the drum
With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may
Over the hills and far away
Chorus out
Words: John Tams / Music: traditional English folk song
From the album Over the Hills and Far Away: The Music of Sharpe
Photo: Tombe du Soldat inconnu, 2007 Leafsfan67. Public domain.
