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All the profits from this track will go to Combat Stress. A UK charity that offers hep and support to our service men and woman on their return from the front line. Thank you for your support.
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Thanks to Mark Stratton at Studio 12 for an excellent recording.
Thanks also to Matt Gibson for the use of his dramatic photograph.
www.mattgibsonphotography.co.uk and to Phil Neale for the stylish artwork
And finally to Marion and Steve for bringing this song alive.
lyrics
SOLDIERS SONG
Here I sit, all alone, I'm writing my Bluey ** home
And I'm wondering what you're doing tonight.
Do you still think of me. Do your thoughts turn tenderly
To what I am doing here tonight.
Under a desert moon deadly flowers bloom.
We lay our lives out on the line.
And the only way that we get through
we close our eyes and we dream of you.
And wonder, what your doing tonight.
Repeat
I can see my daughter's room. Her cuddly toys and a pink balloon
and I'm wondering what she's dreaming of tonight.
Does she remember me. When I left she was barely three.
Yeah I wonder what she's dreaming of tonight.
As under a desert sun, among the bullets and the bombs.
We lay our lives out on the line.
And the only way that we get through we close our eyes and we dream of you. And wonder, what your doing tonight.
This is the soldier's life, and you are a soldier's wife.
We've laid our love out on the line.
And the only way that we get through
close our eyes and dream of you.
And wonder, what you'r doing tonight.
Here I sit all alone. Empty arms and an empty home
and I wonder who your dreaming of tonight.
Do you still think of me. Do your thoughts turn tenderly
to what I am doing here tonight.
As under a desert sky, young men fight and die.
They lay their lives out on the line.
And the only way that we get through
close our eyes and we dream of you
And wonder, what your doing tonight.
This is the soldier's life, and you are a soldier's wife.
We've laid our love out on the line.
And the only way that we get through,
close our eyes and dream of you.
And wonder, what you'r doing tonight
**Bluey - the army's emails printed on blue paper to simulate the old AirMail letters
credits
released September 25, 2012
Written by............... Steve Donnelly
Guitar and Bass......Steve Donnelly
Vocals.......................Marion J Wilson and Steve Donnelly
Harmonica...............Steve Forster
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