Lullaby for Georgie

by ROME

From the album: A Passage to Rhodesia

Track 9 of 12 on A Passage to Rhodesia (2014).

Duration: 4:06

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Lyrics for Lullaby for Georgie

At the first light of dawn I'll get my clothes out of pawn For as we grow older The rats grow bolder And when they sound the retreat I'll get you out of this heat For they might sent us alone Into what won't be home O, Rhodesia, were you ever mine? I thought you should know that we Are now guiltily wolfing your poetry Oh, Rhodesia, buried in the sands of time I thought you should know that we Are now hastily chasing each memory Always guarded by another man's sons We felt it dishonorable for one To stay out of it and how could it be wrong? But we were fighting on the wrong side of a losing war and time Has made orphans of us all Has made cripples of us all I just won't flee down south Where the oceans collide To die a broken man To die a sorry man

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