Key: G
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They came here in &rsquo 4 1,
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When I was just a boy,
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The Docklands streets they left behind
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The bombers then destroyed
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All scattered through our valley
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In hamlets and in farms
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To shelter from the storms of war
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Hidden from all harm
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Oh, hidden from all harm
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That first summer long and warm,
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The fighters overhead
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A bomb fell on the hillside,
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And shook us in our beds,
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Flirting with those city girls,
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And fighting with it&rsquo s sons,
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But come the early autumn fall,
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We lived and laughed as one,
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Oh, we lived and laughed as one.
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My father farmed the hillside fields
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That shadowed half the Vale
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Behind his back we walked alone
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And watched the moon set sail
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The victory gained, they all returned
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I had no cause to doubt
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Her promise to return to me
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Before the year was out,
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Before the year was out.
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Season after season fell
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With no hand at my door
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I fell to sense and reason
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Not waiting anymore
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Oh, the Sunday hymns we used to sing
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I faltered on each verse
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And tried to say a prayer for her
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It came out like a curse
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Oh, it came out like a curse.
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When forty years had passed, one day,
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My son walked in our lane
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A stranger stopped his car and shook his hand
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And asked his name
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From where I stood, they looked just like
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Two brothers face to face,
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I walked towards them through the meadows
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Where we once embraced,
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Oh, where we once embraced.
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She was here in &rsquo 4 1,
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When I was just a boy.