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You’re in a dugout at the front. The young people who made it home could never talk about their experiences. Not one word.

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ONE WORD WAR

The glint of the silver cigarette case
Exchanged with a man like me
A pause in the daily grime and blood
Then friend, back to enemy,
Bodies in pain and pieces
You can’t guess who’ll live on
A bullet true or missing
Is just a toss of the devil’s coin.

One shot
And heads or tails will fall
One word
About the terrible War
He would never say any more

Black and brass, barrel and bullets
Me job to pick off the Hun
In the sights a lad like me
One shot ... and I’m alone,
It could have been anyone given a gun
In trench or skeleton tree
Nerves on edge, for years on end
Then home but never free

We marched off under skies of blue
To foreign fields of green
Turned boggy brown, and bloody too
Now just a museum scene,
Green grass came back while friends did not
Those young men sent to Hell
Now graves fill with silent stories
They would never tell

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from Tales of Common Folk, Salt & Sweet Kisses, track released April 3, 2022
Music and lyrics - Nigel Parry

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Nigel Parry New Zealand

Soulful Folkiwi Music
"..rapidly becoming an established player.., bringing his strong, mellow voice and sympathetic guitar sounds to songs old and new, traditional and his own compositions.”

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