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Artist/Band: Strawbs
Lyrics for Song: The Soldier's Tale
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Strawbs



Strawbs - The Soldier's Tale



The watchers on the hillside stand in silence

As the dawn appears

Then they gather to their horses in an instant

As a sunshaft sears

Through the morning mist which hangs low in the valleys

Like a serpent's tail

Both poisonous to enemies and heroes

In the soldiers' tale.



A lonely tower stands empty as a refuge

By the sullen lake

As the straggle of survivors, in their weakness,

Make a grave mistake

For the crossroad sign which points towards the cost

Is another nail

In the cross of the Pretender and his comrades

In the soldiers' tale.



The dream we once knew

Is now over

The battle is lost

The retreat has begun

Let us make our escape

In the dead of the night

While the lone widows wail

In the soldiers' tale.



The French boat, at the ready, stands at anchor

On the swollen tide

His loyal followers raise a faint cheer

As he draws aside

The Pretender's cause is lost, a sad farewell

As the boat sets sail

And the rain hurls down on the challenge of the gauntlet

In the soldiers' tale.



The soldiers' song is never sung

The soldiers' battle never won

The soldiers' lives are bought an sold

The soldiers' bayonets are cold

The soldiers' guns are never fired

The soldiers' eyes are never tired

The soldiers' hearts are filled with hate

A soldier's cause must ever wait.


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Strawbs


Strawbs
"Other Songs - Strawbs"


1. A Song For Me
2. All In Vain
3. And Wherefore
4. Backside
5. Bitter Sunshine
6. Can You Believe
7. Changes Arranges
8. Crie Du Cœur
9. Dance On
10. Flinthill Special
11. Going Home
12. Heat Of The Street
13. Higher Germanie
14. Hummingbird
15. Ice Maiden
16. Lady Fuchsia
17. Part Of The Union
18. Riviera Del Fiori
19. Silver Smile
20. So Close And Yet So Far Away
21. Song For Alex
22. Starshine/Angel Wine
23. Steppes
24. Still Small Voice
25. Strawbs - Oh, How She Changed
26. That's The Way It Ends (including The World)
27. The Desert Song
28. The Life Auction
29. The Soldier's Tale
30. The Young Pretender
31. Via Bencini
32. Wasting My Time (Thinking Of You)
33. Ways And Means
34. When The Lights Came On
35. When You Were A Child
36. Why