Decemberists Soldiering Life Lyrics

Soldiering Life Lyrics

Ambling madly all over the town

The call to arms you likened to a whisper

I likened to a radio



You were a brick bat, a Bowery tough, so rough

They called you from a cartoon

Pulled out of your pantaloons



But you, my brother in arms

I'd rather I'd lose my limbs

Than let you come to harm



But you, my bombazine doll

The bullets may singe your skin

And the mortars may fall



But I, I never felt so much life

Than tonight huddled in the trenches

Gazing on the battlefield

Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away



Corporal Bradley of regiment five

In proud array standing by the bathing

Soldiers and the stevedores



We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep

Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civvies

Cradled in our dungarees



But you, my brother in arms

I'd rather I'd lose my limbs

Than let you come to harm



But you, my bombazine doll

The bullets may singe your skin

And the mortars may fall



But I, I never felt so much life

Than tonight, huddled in the trenches

Gazing on the battle field

Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away

We blaze away, we blaze away