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Nobody Was There Lyrics by John Edmond

TROOPIESONGS - complete 50th Anniversary Edition

2011

He was a ragged boy when at his father's knee
Became an orphan like a fledgling from a tree
And at the barrack fence he found his only thrill
The sights and sounds of the parade ground and the soldiers at their drill
And the band played on
And the soldiers marched along
And they sang the sweet banana song
Nobody was there to share, to turn to and to say "I'm going to be a soldier too one day."
He was a ragged youth he worked the fields of grain
A simple man of peace in sun and wind and rain
And they came in the dead of night as only jackals can
And they killed his woman and child and the white haired old man
And life goes on
And the soldiers marched along
And they sang the sweet banana song
Nobody was there to hear his oath of sweet revenge, and the deaths he swore one day he would avenge
Far from the ragged boy, the soldier that he made
No one to see him at the passing out parade
One day an ambush and a bullet tears his chest
And dying as he fires, poor jackals meet their death
And the war raged on
And the soldiers marched along
And they sang the sweet banana song
Nobody was there to care, to be there by his side
Nobody was there when the ragged soldier died
Nobody was there, nobody was there, nobody was there, nobody was there
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John Edmond

John Edmond

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