Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
When Margaret Was Eleven
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Sweet Lord, I was | seven and | Margaret was e | leven |
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They | fed us war for | breakfast and | soldiers' songs for | tea |
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Your | father's gone cam | paigning, was their | way of not ex | plaining |
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That | soldiers are the | living proof of our | inhumani | ty |
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My | father said farewell and the | band played tunes of | glor | y |
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A | gallant man he | marched away, a | man with digni | ty |
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A | regimental | sergeant, the | backbone of the | Empire |
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For | God and righteous | glory bound for | High Germa | ny |
My childhood passed away amid tales and lurid stories
Of manufactured glories and inhuman gallantry
I asked, When is war over, but no one seemed to answer
And Margaret played the dreaded tune called High Germany
My father came back home, but he came without his reason
Two eyes of molten madness, a senseless fool of war
He's just a child, my mother cried, To be dressed in full regalia
And paraded as a hero home from High Germany
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