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1939 Returning Tab

by Pete Doherty


Pete(r) Doherty-
1939 Returning-
Grace/Westlands


Verse:

              
Captured clandestine
               
Crawled into the lights
                                         
He knew he was in for a shoeing
                   
Just wasn't to be his night

                      
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine
                            
For the Motherland and the Third Reich
                                   
A toeing's as good as a shoeing
                  
When it's not to be your night

Chorus:


Tread carefully, so carefully

Upon the drifting ice

Caught behind enemy lines
    
In 1939

          
For Germany he sacrificed his life
                    
Caught behind enemy lines                 
      
There in 1939

Verse:

                   
Kids knee-deep in rubble
                     
London urchins grey with dust
                         
Packed off ours in evacuations
              
To farmers' wives

Green and pleasant lives

Far from the doodlebugs
                          
Nanna Doll she still remembers
                    
Leaving town in worn-out shoes
                                 
Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations
                              
Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues

Chorus:


Tread carefully, so carefully

Upon the drifting ice

Staring blank into the TV guide
     
In 2009

                   
How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice

Since you went west for the second time
        
Since 1939 

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