Dear Wife

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No my darling have no fear I'll see you by and by I trust in my commander And my brothers in arms The chaplain reassures us That God is on our side And I will write you every day I will keep you informed Dear Wife I can feel you arms about my neck Life like The image of you crying at the gate Dear Wife Your photo is a shield over my heart My Life Depends on the memory of your face We landed on the shore today No enemy in sight We are strong and confident Our training is complete We set up camp And cleaned our guns And sang away the night And yours by far the lovliest Of all the pictures seen I can barely write today How things have gone awry A man who was a friend to me Is dead and many more I had to do a dreadful thing To make it back alive Why am I the only one To send back into war? So tell me dear The color of your eyes I cannot remember The glimmer of your hair You were a guiding light Emblazoned on my mind But death had led me far away And I don't seem to care Dear God I am betrayed today My brothers are insane Our leaders have abandoned us And turned us loose to kill They behave like animals And I behave the same Why should I try to survive When I don't have the will? Dear Wife The tempo of my death is beating down Why Hide? Relief awaits me, I cannot escape Dear Wife Your photo is a dead thing to me now My Life Is wasted like the memory of your face