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Eilif (Song About The Soldier And His Wife)
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Duke Special
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Your gun is precise, and your bayonet's nice
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But the ice on the river won't hold you
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You'll drown in a trice if you march on the ice
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And lonely, cold death shall enfold you
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Thus spoke his wife as he whetted his knife
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Hoisting his pack, he said marching is my life
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For when you're marching no woman can scold you
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We're marching into Poland, then we're marching off to Spain
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With your bayonet sharpened,
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With your sharp bayonet you've no need to explain
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For there's no woman who's ever controlled you
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When you're marching no woman,
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When you're marching no woman can scold you
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Oh, bitter her tears, she was younger in years
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Wiser than he, so she told him
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March off if you must, they will all come to dust
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For only a coffin shall hold him
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Off goes her man, he will write when he can
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And women have wept since the world first began
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And how the sound of her sorrow consoled him
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With the moon on the shingles, I see white on the snow
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Goodbye to your husband,
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So long to your husband, and then back home you'll go
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Where you will wait for the fate you foretold him
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You will wait for the fate,
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You will wait for the fate you foretold him
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It isn't a joke, your life is like smoke
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And someday you will wish you had tarried
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How quickly you'll fall, oh God help us all
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A soldier should never get married
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He tumbled the dice, and he soon paid the price
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They gave him his orders to march on the ice
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And then the water rose up all around him
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And the water rose up and it drowned him
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Through Poland, through Spain, his poor wife searched in vain
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But he'd vanished: she never found him
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He was gone and his wife
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He was gone and his wife
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He was gone and his wife never found him
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Oh she never found him
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