Soldiering Life Lyrics - Her Majesty - Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town 

The call to arms you likened to a whisper 

I likened to a radio 

You were a brick bat, a Bowery tough, so rough 

They called you from a cartoon 

Pulled out of your pantaloons 

But you, my brother in arms 

I'd rather I'd lose my limbs 

Than let you come to harm 

But you, my bombazine doll 

The bullets may singe your skin 

And the mortars may fall 

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But I, I never felt so much life 

Than tonight huddled in the trenches 

Gazing on the battlefield 

Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away 

Corporal Bradley of regiment five 

In proud array standing by the bathing 

Soldiers and the stevedores 

We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep 

Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civvies 

Cradled in our dungarees 

But you, my brother in arms 

I'd rather I'd lose my limbs 

Than let you come to harm 

But you, my bombazine doll 

The bullets may singe your skin 

And the mortars may fall 

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But I, I never felt so much life 

Than tonight, huddled in the trenches 

Gazing on the battle field 

Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away 

We blaze away, we blaze away