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"Welcome Home"
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-Eric Bogle
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Now when the boys came home, Annie cried and Annie cheered
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She'd been on her own for a long and lonely year
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Living for his letters from far away Vietnam
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And dreading the official telegram
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So she was waiting at the station when his train came rolling in
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She ached with anticipation of holding him again
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And suddenly he was standing there in his crumpled uniform
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In a heartbeat she was in his arms
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Welcome home, boys, welcome home
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Don't you know, you've been gone too long
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Did you wonder, over there,
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When you were tired, when you were scared,
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If your country really cared, welcome home
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When a nation goes to war, everyone's a casualty
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Some are maimed and scarred, most have wounds you cannot see
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So in place of the man that she had known,
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Annie found instead, a sick and troubled stranger in her bed
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But she was stubborn, she was lovin', so she stayed all through the years
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The hard times and the drinking, the nightmares and the tears
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For where hate is muddy quicksand, love is tempered steel
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Annie waited for his wounds to heal
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Welcome home, boys, welcome home
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Don't you know, you've been gone too long
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We're just so glad that you're alive
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And only you will wonder why
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You lived when others died, welcome home
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So on a sunny Sydney morning, I heard old war drums beat
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And watched the boys come marching, down the city street*
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To claim their place in the nation's heart
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That their blood and pain had earned
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A nation that rejoiced in their return
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And if the day helped to heal some wounds is a matter of debate
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For some it had come none too soon, for others far too late
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But I found myself hoping, as the boys went marching past
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That for them the war was over, at last
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Welcome home, boys, welcome home
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Don't you know, you've been gone too long
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What you went through in Vietnam, we can't begin to understand
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But to each and every man, welcome home
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Welcome home, boys, welcome home
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Don't you know, you've been gone too long
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May the years bring you release, as the memories decrease
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May you find some kind of peace, welcome home
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May you find some kind of peace, welcome home
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NOTES:
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ANZAC Day Parade. ANZAC Day is Australia's version of
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Memorial Day in the US and Canada
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