[00:00.000] 作曲 : Traditional Song
[00:20.204] One morning when the office was opened
[00:22.725] A man quite old in years
[00:25.148] Stood the express office
[00:27.431] Showing signs of grief and tears
[00:30.231] And there's a clerk approached him
[00:32.716] With trembling words he said
[00:34.829] I'm waiting for my boy, sir
[00:37.633] He's coming home today
[00:40.246] Well. You have made a silly mistake
[00:42.534] But you must surely know
[00:44.858] That this is the telegraph office, Sir
[00:47.683] And not a town depot
[00:50.251] And if your boy is coming home
[00:52.666] The clerk did smile and say
[00:54.794] You'll find him with the passengers, Sir
[00:57.314] At the station just all the way
[01:00.018] No you do not understand me, Sir
[01:02.465] The old man shook his head
[01:04.744] He's coming not as a passenger
[01:07.344] But by express instead
[01:09.955] He's coming home to mother
[01:12.524] The old man gently said
[01:14.659] He's coming home in a casket, Sir
[01:17.405] He's coming to us dead
[01:39.684] Then a whistle pierced their ears
[01:42.157] The express train someone cry
[01:44.496] The old man rose in a breathless haste
[01:47.147] And quickly rushed outside
[01:49.526] Then a long white casket
[01:51.853] Was lowered to the ground
[01:54.423] And showing sighs of grief and tear
[01:56.738] To those who gathered around
[01:59.023] He said: Do not use him roughly, boys
[02:01.650] It contains our darling Jack
[02:04.403] He went away as you boys are
[02:06.673] This way he's coming back
[02:09.188] He broke his dear old mother's heart
[02:11.746] Her fears have all come true
[02:14.212] She said, it's the way that he'd come home
[02:16.679] If he joined the boys in blue