Key: F
Introduction:
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Took a boat over Lake Geneva
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It was raining all night long
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We were lucky and we saw no enemy
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And came from Switzerland, poor refugees
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Far from the guns of war
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We said goodbye to it all
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They brought us in to a nurse's station
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Half a mile behind the lines
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Oh Lord, how my heart was breaking
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To see the children, and the walking wounded
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Hoping for a ticket home
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And say goodbye to it all
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I woke up on a cold blue morning
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To see her there, standing right beside me
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Long years since I left her at the borderline
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And how she found me, I'd never know
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But we decided there and then
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To say goodbye to it all
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To it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Took a train from Paris to the ocean
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Found a small hotel by the coast
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As we walked along the beaches of Normandy
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We came to Juno, Omaha and Gold
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And whispered a prayer for the boys
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Who said goodbye to it all
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Now we've got our own place by the water
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And I have a job in the old hotel
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She is ready and she's hoping for a daughter
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Well I don't mind, we've made our choice
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We've got all the time in the world
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We said goodbye to it all
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We said goodbye to it all
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'Bye to it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Say goodbye to it all
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Say goodbye
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Say goodbye...