1 | Eric Bogle has written several of these, mostly his anti-war songs. |
2 | * You're probably here because of the current [[TearJerker/{{Music}} Music page]] quote, from "My Youngest Son Came Home Today." |
3 | -->''My youngest son came home today,'' |
4 | -->''His friends marched with him all the way,'' |
5 | -->''The fife and drums beat out the time,'' |
6 | -->''While in his box of polished pine,'' |
7 | -->''Like dead meat on a butcher's tray,'' |
8 | -->''My youngest son came home today.'' |
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10 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM 'The Band played Waltzing Matilda']], often played on ANZAC Day (remembrance for all Australian soldiers who fought and died in all wars), is about a soldier in World War 1 who lost his legs. There probably isn't an Aussie alive anywhere who didn't tear up listening to that song the first time. |
11 | -->But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.\ |
12 | But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their faces away\ |
13 | And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me.\ |
14 | And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories\ |
15 | And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war\ |
16 | And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question. |
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18 | * "No Man's Land" (often covered as "The Green Fields of France") is another WWI themed song, about the futile death of young Private Willie [=McBride=]. |
19 | -->Did you really believe, when you answered the call,\ |
20 | Did you really believe that this war would end war?\ |
21 | For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,\ |
22 | The killing and dying were all done in vain,\ |
23 | For Willie Mac Bride, it all happened again,\ |
24 | And again, and again, and again, and again. |
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26 | * "Romeo And Juliet In Sarajevo" is yet another song about the senselessness of war - this time about a pair of young lovers caught in the crossfire. |
27 | -->Romeo, has your star set?\ |
28 | Where are you, Romeo?\ |
29 | Lying with your Juliet\ |
30 | In a field near Sarajevo.\ |
31 | Did you think love would be your shield?\ |
32 | Foolish Romeo!\ |
33 | Now love lies rotting in a field\ |
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