Les Morts Dansant Lyrics

Les Morts Dansant lyrics

Cannons roared in the valley they thundered
While the guns lit up the
night
Then it rained and both sides wondered
Who is wrong and who is
right

On the wire like a ragged old scarecrow
Bloody hands and broken
back
When they fire see him pirouette solo
Jump in time to the rat a
tat

What a night though it's one of seven
What a night for the
dancing dead
What a night to be called to heaven
What a picture to fill
your head

By the wall in a silouette standing
Through a flash of
sudden light
Cigarette from his mouth just hanging
Paper square to his
heart pinned tight

Gather round reluctant marksmen
One of them to
take his life
With a smile he gives them pardon
Leaves the dark and takes
the light

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They dispatch their precious cargo
Knock him
back right off his feet
And they pray may no one follow
Better still to
face the beast

When the field has become a garden
And the wall has
stood the test
Children play and the dogs run barking
Who would think or
who would guess

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