Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free
Added to UG By Mikhailo (mikhailo_@mail.ru)
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It was just before dawn one miserable morning in black forty-four

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When the foreward commander was told to sit tight,

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When they asked that his men be withdrawn

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And the generals gave thanks, as the other ranks

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Held back the enemy tanks for a while

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And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price

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Of a few hundred ordinary lives



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And kind old King George sent Mother a note when he heard that Father was gone

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It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll with gold leaf and all

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And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away

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And my eyes still grow damp to remember

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His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp

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It was dark all around, there was frost on the ground

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When the Tigers broke free

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And no-one survived from the Royal Fusiliers, Company "C"

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They were all left behind, most of them dead - the rest of them dying

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And that's how the high command took my daddy from me