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Version 1 of Pink Floyd Lyrics When the Tigers Broke Free (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/pink-floyd/when-the-tigers-broke-...) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||||
| It was just before dawn | It was just before dawn | |||||||||||||
| 1 | One miserable morning in black '44 | One miserable morning in black 'forty four. | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | When the forward commander was told to sit tight | When the forward commander | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | When he asked that his men be withdrawn | Was told to sit tight | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | When he asked that his men be withdrawn. | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | And the Generals gave thanks as the other ranks | And the Generals gave thanks | 5 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Held back the enemy tanks for a while | As the other ranks held back | 6 | |||||||||||
| 7 | And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price | The enemy tanks for a while. | 7 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Of a few hundred ordinary lives | And the Anzio bridgehead | 8 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Was held for the price | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | And kind old King George sent Mother a note | Of a few hundred ordinary lives. | 10 | |||||||||||
| 1 | When he heard that father was gone | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | It was, I recall in the form of a scroll | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | With gold leaf and all | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | And old King George | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Sent Mother a note | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | When he heard that father was gone. | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | It was, I recall, | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | In the form of a scroll, | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | With gold leaf and all. | 6 | ||||||||||||
| And I found it one day | And I found it one day | |||||||||||||
| 11 | In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away | In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away. | 11 | |||||||||||
| And my eyes still grow damp to remember | And my eyes still grow damp to remember | |||||||||||||
| 12 | His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp | His Majesty signed | 12 | |||||||||||
| 7 | With his own rubber stamp. | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | It was dark all around | It was dark all around. | 13 | |||||||||||
| There was frost in the ground | There was frost in the ground | |||||||||||||
| 14 | When the tigers broke free | When the tigers broke free. | 14 | |||||||||||
| 15 | And no one survived from the Royal Fusiliers Company C | And no one survived | 15 | |||||||||||
| 16 | From the Royal Fusiliers Company C. | 16 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | They were all left behind | They were all left behind, | 17 | |||||||||||
| 18 | Most of them dead, the rest of them dying | Most of them dead, | 18 | |||||||||||
| 8 | The rest of them dying. | 8 | ||||||||||||
| And that's how the High Command | And that's how the High Command | |||||||||||||
| 19 | Took my daddy from me | Took my daddy from me. | 19 | |||||||||||
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