Harry, Billy Boy and Me

Lyrics

Harry, Billy Boy And Me If I try hard enough Tilt my head, screw my eyes up Then the trees come back to life And the mud returns to flowers And with her hair tumbling down All around her pretty shoulders Comes Martha, with her arms out Running bare foot through the grass And I am home Next to me, sitting here Staring out into the distance My old friends, we don't speak Because we know just what we're thinking And if I was a betting man I would say the chance of getting home alive Is growing dim With every bayonet and shell That we survive And the birds don't appear To sing their morning chorus They've flown far away from here And I wish that I could join them And the only sound we hear Is the wind as it whistles on the wire As we climbed from the trench I heard Billy cry in pain And saw his lifeless body Fall back to the mud As Harry called out Billy Boy Then he froze and he sank down to his knees And looked across to me as I lay dieing Shouting Charlie, see you on the other side We signed the line, played our part And we stood up to be counted But the three of us and millions more Were never to return We lie there still, in the ground That we paid for with our lives So tell the world, if you will We were brothers, Harry, Billy Boy and Me On a grey Sunday morning Just a few years from the day Martha reaches out her hand And with her fingers traces names carved in the stone Then she wipes a tear And whispers to her boy You look so much like your father Charlie He would be so proud of you today

Credits

Lyrics Credits: John Evans

Music Credits: John Evans

Producer Credits: John Evans

Performance Credits: John Evans

Description

Short Song Description: From the album 'Chums'. Harry, Billy Boy and Charlies last battle. Tell the world, if you will, we were brothers, Harry, Billy Boy and Me.

Story Behind the Song: From the album 'Chums'. Harry, Billy Boy and Charlies last battle. Tell the world, if you will, we were brothers, Harry, Billy Boy and Me.

Metadata

Song Length: 5:53

Primary Genre: Folk-General

Secondary Genre: Folk-Traditional