When the Tigers Broke Free

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# It was just before dawn one miserable morning in black forty-four
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# When the foreward commander was told to sit tight,
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# When they asked that his men be withdrawn
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# And the generals gave thanks, as the other ranks
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# Held back the enemy tanks for a while
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# And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price
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# Of a few hundred ordinary lives
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# And kind old King George sent Mother a note when he heard that Father was gone
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# It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll with gold leaf and all
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# And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away
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# And my eyes still grow damp to remember
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# His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp
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# It was dark all around, there was frost on the ground
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# When the Tigers broke free
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# And no-one survived from the Royal Fusiliers, Company "C"
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# They were all left behind,  most of them dead  -  the rest of them dying
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# And that's how the high command took my daddy from me
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