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The Ballad Of Flora Sandes
Reg Meuross
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She was born to God's disciple
She was born to hold a rifle
She taught herself to fight
While all the other girls played mum
Learned to ride and learned to drive
Fix a wound and stay alive
How to use a sword
And how to shoot a gun
When the war broke in the east
She begged her father to release her
To a frontline nurse's station
In North Albania
He said, "Women are created
To give life and men to take it
So care for and repair them
But remember who you are"
She strapped a soldier's tunic 'round her charms
She said, "Let the girls bear armies
I'll bear arms"
Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes
Wasn't born a fighting man
But God help the man who finds himself at war
With Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
Drawing close she heard the rattle
Of the angry guns of battle
She begged her captain free her
To the raging heart of war
He said, "There is a way
But you must swear an oath today
That you will love no man completely
Give your body to your country
And wear the clothes that other soldiers wore"
And Flora smiled sweetly
And she swore
Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes
Wasn't born a fighting man
But God help the man who finds himself at war
With Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
To her a woman's life was boredom
Only fighting brought her freedom
Her lethal independence
Craved the brotherhood of men
Between killing them she healed them
Later married and concealed them
But their annihilation
Was her greatest pleasure then
She took comfort in their silence and their moans
Only then she knew she'd brought death's victory home
Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes
Wasn't born a fighting man
But God help the man who finds himself at war
With Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
She fought hand to hand with men
Winning time and time again
'Til an enemy grenade cut her down, cut her down
She was honoured and promoted
For her injuries deported
Her doctors tried to lead her
To a woman's life again
She said, "I never came this far to lose
And I will be a woman when I choose"
Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes
Wasn't born a fighting man
But God help the man who finds himself at war
With Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
She died at home among the flowers
In the quiet English hours
The soft hands of a woman
Lay still upon her chest
Hands that killed and mutilated
Lie content and compensated
It was a woman that they buried
And a woman laid to rest
But as she breathed her last she felt the joy
Remembering when she was a boy
Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes
Wasn't born a fighting man
But God help the man who finds himself at war
With Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes