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For Another King and Country
Phil Coulter; Roy Buckley
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My name is William Collins
Born and raised in the Ballylaneen
I said farewell to Waterford when I was seventeen
I joined the British Army as John Redmond said we should
We'd get Home Rule for Ireland
That's what we understood
Dear God
For another king and country
In another nation's cause
Four Collins brothers paid the price
In that war to end all wars
From the mud and blood of Flanders
and the squalor on the Somme
There one by one
Their lives undone
By the bullet and the bomb
By the bullet and the bomb
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You'll all be home by Christmas
That's what the papers said
But it was Christmas in the trenches with the dying and the dead
Five telegrams of heartache would reach my mother's door
To say that my poor brothers had fallen in the war
Dear God
For another king and country
In another nation's cause
Four Collins brothers paid the price
In that war to end all wars
From the mud and blood of Flanders
and the squalor on the Somme
There one by one
Their lives undone
By the bullet and the bomb
By the bullet and the bomb
ย
I came home on compassion as a traitor to my land
I'd left my home a hero
I would never understand
Had I betrayed my nation?
Had my brothers died in vain?
Forgotten by their people under headstones with no names
Dear God
For another king and country
In another nation's cause
Four Collins brothers paid the price
In that war to end all wars
From the mud and blood of Flanders
and the squalor on the Somme
There one by one
Their lives undone
By the bullet and the bomb
By the bullet and the bomb
By the bullet and the bomb
By the bullet and the bomb
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