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From the play 'Your Loving Brother Albert'. Rifleman Albert French is homesick.

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The Parapet Song
Words & music: Paul Clark

I sit on the parapet, day is a-breaking,
I sit and I wonder, is Jerry awake?
I’d like to look over, see day at it’s waking,
But snipers are quick if you make a mistake
Back in the town where I was born
People are stirring this midsummer’s morn
They have no cause to fear someone waiting to shoot them
It’s only dawn’s chill makes them shiver and shake.

When Kitchener pointed his forefinger at me
I took up the challenge, went off to enlist
The barracks and square-bashing didn’t deter me
Of the life I’d left there was little I’d missed.
I hadn’t seen troops take a shell’s direct hit –
Bullets and barbed wire that tear men to bits
Now the life of a soldier looks differently to me
I don’t play the hero, just try to exist.

When I close my eyes I see all the old places –
The great carriage works stretching down Stratford way
And all of my friends there, I see their tired faces
As they come through the gates at the end of the day
The places we walked, the tow-path, the track –
Half of me wishes that I could be back there,
But there’s no use wishing what simply can’t happen,
I’m here till it’s over, and done come what may.

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from All That's Changed vol 2, released June 2, 2009

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The Living Archive Band Milton Keynes, UK

An acoustic quintet with an emphasis on strong vocals to deliver both songs and the spoken word depicting the experiences of the people of North Buckinghamshire past and present. The inhabitants of the towns of Wolverton, Stony Stratford and Bletchley and of course the new city of Milton Keynes all have had something to say, and the Living Archive Band gives them a voice. ... more

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