When The Tigers Broke Free (Pink Floyd - The Wall - Film)

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WHEN THE TIGERS BROKE FREE
Pink Floyd
(Roger Waters)

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It was just before dawn one miserable morning in black forty-four
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When the foreward commander was told to sit tight,
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When they asked that his men be withdrawn
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And the generals gave thanks, as the other ranks
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Held back the enemy tanks for a while
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And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price
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Of a few hundred ordinary lives

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And kind old King George sent Mother a note when he heard that Father was gone
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It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll with gold leaf and all
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And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away
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And my eyes still grow damp to remember
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His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp

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It was dark all around, there was frost on the ground
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When the Tigers broke free
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And no-one survived from the Royal Fusiliers, Company "C"
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They were all left behind, most of them dead - the rest of them dying
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And that's how the high command took my daddy from me

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