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Goodbye (from The White Horse Inn) |
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Words & Music by |
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Ralph Benatsky |
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My heart is broken, but what care |
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I? Such pride inside me has spoken, |
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I shall do my best not to cry, by and by, |
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When the final farewells must be spoken. |
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I'll join the legion, that's what |
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I'll do, and in some far distant region, |
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Where human hearts are staunch and true; |
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I shall start my life anew. |
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Goodbye, it's time |
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I sought a foreign clime, |
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Where I may find there are hearts more kind than |
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I leave behind. |
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And so I go to fight the savage foe, |
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Although I know that |
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I'll be sometimes missed by the girls |
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I've kissed. |
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In some Abyssinian, |
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French dominion |
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I shall do my bit, |
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And fall for the flag if |
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I must.Where the desert sand is nice and sandy, |
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I 'll be full of grit, |
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You won't see my heels for the dust. |
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I'll do or die, you'll know the reason why when told, |
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Of bold Leopold's last stands for the fatherland. |
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Goodbye. Goodbye. |
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I wish you all a last "Goodbye". |
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Goodbye. Goodbye. |
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I wish you all a last "Goodbye". |
