Forgotten Soldier Boy-Lilly Brothers/Don Stover

[ti:Forgotten Soldier Boy] [ar:The Lilly Bros./Don Stover] [al:In My Dear Old Southern Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Forgotten Soldier Boy - The Lilly Bros.,Don Stover [00:10.27]I'm just a poor ex-soldier that's broken down and blue [00:20.55]I fought out in the Great War for [00:25.15]The old red white and blue [00:28.56] [00:29.40]I left my parents and my girl [00:33.74]I loved to France did go [00:37.05] [00:38.05]And fought out on the battlefield [00:42.60]Through hunger sleet and snow [00:46.23] [00:47.00]I saw my buddies dying and [00:51.76]Some shellshocked and torn [00:54.86] [00:55.77]Although we never faltered [00:59.43] [01:00.20]At the battle of Amarne [01:03.43] [01:04.51]And we were told when we left home [01:08.86]We'd be heroes of the land [01:11.81] [01:13.12]So we came back and found no one [01:16.97] [01:17.65]Would lend a helping hand [01:21.02] [01:40.87]They promised gold and silver and bid us all adieu [01:48.27] [01:49.43]They said they'd welcome us back home [01:53.23] [01:53.87]When the terrible war was through [01:56.80] [01:58.15]We fought until the war was over [02:02.59]They said we'd won the fight [02:05.48] [02:06.85]But we have no job or money [02:10.48] [02:11.21]No place to sleep at night [02:14.49] [02:34.45]They called us wandering boys bums [02:38.46] [02:39.16]Asking for shelter and bread [02:41.55] [02:43.18]Although we fought in no man's land [02:47.50]And a-many poor [02:48.87]Boy is dead [02:50.90] [02:51.65]So listen to my story and lend a helping hand [02:59.08] [03:00.27]To the poor forgotten soldier boy [03:04.71]Who fought to save our land