Christmas 1915-Tommy Fleming

[ti:Christmas 1915] [ar:Tommy Fleming] [al:Song For A Winter's Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas 1915 - Tommy Fleming [00:13.94]1915 on Christmas Day [00:18.43] [00:19.39]On the Western Front the guns all died away [00:23.09] [00:25.89]And lying in the mud on bags of sand [00:29.69] [00:32.31]We heard a German sing from No Mans Land [00:37.04] [00:38.68]He had a tenor voice so pure and true [00:43.18] [00:45.00]The words were strange but every note we knew [00:49.49] [00:51.50]Soaring over the living dead and damned [00:55.95] [00:58.07]The Germans sang of peace from No Mans Land [01:02.51] [01:07.43]They left their trenches and then we left ours [01:11.74] [01:13.81]Beneath tin hats they smiled just like wild flowers [01:18.92] [01:20.30]With photos cigarettes and pots of wine [01:24.17] [01:26.75]We built a soldiers truce on the front line [01:30.82] [01:32.98]Their singer was a lad of 21 [01:37.18] [01:39.29]We begged another song before the dawn [01:43.50] [01:45.63]And lying in the mud and blood and fear [01:50.11] [01:52.10]He sang again the song all longed to hear [01:56.63] [01:59.02]Silent night no canons roar [02:04.70] [02:06.58]A King of Peace is born for ever more [02:11.57] [02:12.79]All's calm all's bright all brothers hand in hand [02:19.51] [02:21.74]In 1915 in No Mans Land [02:26.12] [02:43.02]In the morning all the guns boomed in the rain [02:47.02] [02:48.95]And we killed them and they killed us again [02:53.26] [02:55.61]With bayonet bomb and bullet gas and flame [02:59.44] [03:01.39]Neither we nor they had all to blame [03:06.92] [03:08.23]There was heavy fighting right throughout the day [03:12.25] [03:14.62]For one night's peace we bloodily did pay [03:19.33] [03:21.06]At night they charged we fought them hand to hand [03:25.56] [03:27.57]And I killed the boy that sang in No Mans Land [03:31.77] [03:37.41]Silent night no canons roar [03:43.48] [03:44.70]A King of Peace is born for ever more [03:50.02] [03:50.80]All's calm all's bright all brothers hand in hand [03:57.66] [04:00.26]And that young soldier sings [04:03.37]And the song of peace still rings [04:06.01] [04:06.74]Though the captains [04:07.72]And all the kings built no mans land [04:11.36] [04:22.59]Sleep in heavenly peace