When The Tigers Broke Free

Pink Floyd

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1. It was just before dawn one miserable
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   morning in black forty-four..
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   When the forward commander was told to sit tight..
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   When asked that his men be withdrawn..
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   And the generals gave thanks as the other ranks
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   held be the enemy tanks - for a while..
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   And then the Anzio bridgehead was held for the price
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   of a few hundred ordinary lives..
   
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2. And kind old King George sent mother
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   a note when he heard that father was gone..
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   It was, as I recall, in the form of a scroll
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   with golden leaf and ,all..
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   And I found it one day
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   in a drawer of old photographs hidden away..
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   And my eyes still grow damp to remember
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   his Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp..
   
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3. It was dark all around..
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   There was frost in the ground
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   when the Tigers broke free..
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   And noone survived from the Royal Fusiliers Company C..
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   They were all left behind..
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   Most of them dead..
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   The rest of them dying..
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   And that's how the High Command took my Daddy
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   from me....