Soldier‘s Song(2003 Digital Remaster) - The Hollies

[00:00.43]Soldier's Song (2003 Remastered Version) - The Hollies
[00:00.73]Written by：Mike Batt
[00:06.13]The smoke was slowly rising
[00:08.57]As the light began to fade
[00:11.32]There were fires on the skyline
[00:13.98]From some distant border raid
[00:16.67]I was riding out at seventeen
[00:19.98]To join my first brigade
[00:22.28]Many years ago
[00:27.73]And I chanced upon a farmhouse
[00:30.47]Where the woman took me in
[00:33.61]She gave me food and wine
[00:35.75]She gave me shelter from the wind
[00:38.63]She delayed me from my regiment
[00:41.76]And service of my king
[00:44.25]Many years ago
[00:49.61]She said soldier
[00:52.17]Before I lose you to the fight
[00:55.11]Oh my soldier I'll make a man of you tonight
[01:00.45]She took me over in the fading fireglow
[01:06.02]On that wild and misty night she was my woman
[01:17.62]When I rose next morning
[01:19.78]I was gone before she stood
[01:23.12]Tore myself away from there
[01:25.64]And left without a word
[01:28.479996]The sound of distant infantry
[01:31.0]Was the only thing I heard
[01:33.58]On that morning
[01:39.67]In that day I aged ten years
[01:42.18]And died a thousand deaths
[01:44.869995]I learned the feel of frozen steel
[01:47.56]And fear within my breast
[01:50.32]But the lesson I'll remember
[01:52.740005]Till they lay me to my rest
[01:55.35]Keeps returning
[02:01.0]She said soldier before I lose you to the fight
[02:06.41]Oh my soldier I'll make a man of you tonight
[02:11.68]She took me over in the fading fireglow
[02:17.20999]On that wild and misty night she was my woman
[02:47.9]And when the dice of war were thrown
[02:50.52]And victory was won
[02:53.31]My drunken young compatriots
[02:55.95999]Went out to have their fun
[02:58.43]And there was no single house
[03:00.85]They didn't burn or overrun on that evening
[03:09.61]And I rode out to that place again
[03:12.51]As hard as I could ride
[03:15.06]But I found her by the cradle
[03:17.54001]On that lonely mountainside
[03:20.48]In the hands of those brave friends of mine
[03:23.49]She suffered and she died
[03:25.88]Many years ago
[03:32.05]Soldier before I lose you to the fight
[03:36.7]She said soldier I'll make a man of you tonight
[03:42.19]She took me over in the fading fireglow
[03:47.81]On that wild and misty night she was my woman