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We took a boat over Lake Geneva. |
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It was raining all night long, |
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We were lucky and we saw no enemy, |
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And came from Switzerland poor refugees, |
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Far from the guns of war, |
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We said goodbye to it all; |
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They brought us in to a nurse's station, |
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Half a mile behind the lines, |
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Oh Lord, how my heart was breaking, |
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To see the children, and the walking wounded, |
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Hoping for a ticket home, |
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And say goodbye to it all; |
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I woke up on a cold blue morning, |
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To see her there, standing right beside me, |
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Long years since I left her at the borderline, |
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And how she found me I'd never know, |
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But we decided there and then, |
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To say goodbye to it all; |
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Say goodbye to it all, |
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Say goodbye to it all.... |
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Took a train from Paris to the ocean, |
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Found a small hotel by the coast, |
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As we walked along the beaches of Normandy, |
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We came to Juno, Omaha and Gold, |
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And whispered a prayer for the boys, |
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Who said goodbye to it all; |
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Now we've got our own place by the water, |
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And I have a job in the old hotel, |
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She is ready and she's hoping for a daughter, |
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Well I don't mind, we've made our choice. |
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We've got all the time in the world, |
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We said goodbye to it all, |
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We said goodbye to it all. |
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Say goodbye to it all, |
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Say goodbye to it all, |
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Say goodbye to it all, |
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Say goodbye to it all. |