Soldier's Song(2003 Remaster) - The Hollies

作词：Mike Batt

The smoke was slowly rising

As the light began to fade

There were fires on the skyline

From some distant border raid

I was riding out at seventeen

To join my first brigade

Many years ago

And I chanced upon a farmhouse

Where the woman took me in

She gave me food and wine

She gave me shelter from the wind

She delayed me from my regiment

And service of my king

Many years ago

She said soldier

Before I lose you to the fight

Oh my soldier I'll make a man of you tonight

She took me over in the fading fireglow

On that wild and misty night she was my woman

When I rose next morning

I was gone before she stood

Tore myself away from there

And left without a word

The sound of distant infantry

Was the only thing I heard

On that morning

In that day I aged ten years

And died a thousand deaths

I learned the feel of frozen steel

And fear within my breast

But the lesson I'll remember

Till they lay me to my rest

Keeps returning

She said soldier before I lose you to the fight

Oh my soldier I'll make a man of you tonight

She took me over in the fading fireglow

On that wild and misty night she was my woman

And when the dice of war were thrown

And victory was won

My drunken young compatriots

Went out to have their fun

And there was no single house

They didn't burn or overrun on that evening

And I rode out to that place again

As hard as I could ride

But I found her by the cradle

On that lonely mountainside

In the hands of those brave friends of mine

She suffered and she died

Many years ago

Soldier before I lose you to the fight

She said soldier I'll make a man of you tonight

She took me over in the fading fireglow

On that wild and misty night she was my woman