Like Swallows Returning
¶ 1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 I’ve always been a true Blues’ fan I’ve watched the mighty play
¶ 2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Vic Woodley and ‘Wee’ Gallagher all heroes in my day
¶ 3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 At Christmas ’37 i stil recall the time
¶ 4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 when Charlton’s legend Bartram stood rooted to his line
¶ 5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 the fog swept in acoss the ‘Bridge’ as thick as soup it rolled
¶ 6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 though teams and fans had long since gone poor Sam was never told
¶ 7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 how swift my life was turned around with War so soon declared
¶ 8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 I wondered as we left these shores if my life would be spared
¶ 9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 I found myself in ‘Hell-on-Earth’ imprisoned in some cage
¶ 10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 no man could ever quite describe those depths on printed page
¶ 11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 denied of nature life itself a number lost forlorn
¶ 12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 my heart a seed now ravaged my body racked and torn
¶ 13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 I battled on and clutched so tight those snapshots to my breast
¶ 14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 but never dreamed I’d see my home when all around lay death
¶ 15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 yet when my leg was all but gone and splinters turned it green
¶ 16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 the swallows found their way inside that dreadful prison scene
¶ 17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 and while I lay abandoned there in agony and pain
¶ 18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 those wondrous birds came back each year to lift my soul again
¶ 19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 and through it all with fading hopes my strength now all but drained
¶ 20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 their bravery encouraged me and trust and hope remained
¶ 21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 I could not stand but wept aloud the day our freedom came
¶ 22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 degraded lost with years of toil in stench and loss and shame
¶ 23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 alll dazed confused my being bruised we landed on this shore
¶ 24 Leave a comment on verse 24 0 like swallows now returning I glimpsed my home once more
¶ 25 Leave a comment on verse 25 0 a frightened man I crept through streets like foxes in some field
¶ 26 Leave a comment on verse 26 0 and wondered would I ever feel the way I used to feel
¶ 27 Leave a comment on verse 27 0 to my surprise against my will I found myself again
¶ 28 Leave a comment on verse 28 0 inside that ground with thousands to see that mighty game
¶ 29 Leave a comment on verse 29 0 I’ve always been a true Blues’ fan I’d watched the mighty play
¶ 30 Leave a comment on verse 30 0 but never thought within that camp I’d live to see the day
¶ 31 Leave a comment on verse 31 0 like swallows and the flowers in Spring those metaphors of life
¶ 32 Leave a comment on verse 32 0 are etched here deep within me still they keep my faith alive
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