When The Tigers Broke Free

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It was just before dawn one 
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miserable morning in black 
forty-four
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When the foreward commander was told
 to sit tight,
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When they asked that his men be 
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withdrawn
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And the generals gave thanks, as the
 other ranks
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Held back the enemy tanks for a 
while
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And the Anzio Bridgehead was held 
for the price
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Of a few hundred ordinary lives
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And kind old King George sent 
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Mother a note when
he heard that Father was gone
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It was, I recall, in the form of a 
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scroll with gold leaf and all
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And I found it one day in a drawer 
of old photographs hidden away
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And my eyes still grow damp to 
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remember
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His Majesty signed with his own 
rubber stamp
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It was dark all around, there was
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 frost on the ground
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When the Tigers broke free
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And no-one survived from the Royal 
Fusiliers, Company "C"
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They were all left behind,  most 
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of them dead  -  the rest of them 
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dying
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And that's how the high command 
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took my daddy from me