To be a soldier lyrics

She was a girl of sixteen summers

And I was scarcely any older

To see her once was but to love her

To love and cherish and discover

My every thought was only of her

Before I went to be a soldier

It was a time of young confusion

When blood runs hot and boys grow bolder

And all that summer long I chased her

Until she turned, until I faced her

On beds of poppies I embraced her

Before I went to be a soldier

There was a baby born in spring time

I wasn't there to see or hold her

The buggles called and I was sent for

To play the game that blood is spent for

The ancient game that youth is meant for

To be a man, to be a soldier

In foreign fields I've seen the slaughter

Of hot young boys who now grow colder

Where steel and fire burn and blind me

Where only poppies still remind me

Of shinning summer days behind me

Before I went to be a soldier

I close my eyes and see my lover

A child asleep against her shoulder

A child of love who's life we started

When hope was new and open hearted

A time that ever more departed

The day I went to be a soldier

To be a soldier

To be a soldier

A soldier

Источник: LyricFind

Авторы: Charles AZNAVOUR / Herbert KRETZMER

Текст песни "To Be A Soldier", © Editions Musicales Djanik