far away - sir reg

there was only unemploymet

there the day that i left school

were many words and promises

and talk of home rule

so i joined the british

army and i sold away my soul

and went off to foreign

lands to fight an enemy unknown

well me and twenty other

lads all from the culdesac

we ended up together in the

same old muddy trench

ah young doyler lost his marbles

and the others tried to cope

as they sent the boys out one by one

into the barb and smoke

far away far away

ah they're dying on the battlefields for nothing

far away far away

but i promised that i'd come back home to mother

the first week went so slowly

we lost many of our men

i couldn't sleep at all beneath

the earth of no man's land

and i tried to help my comrades

who'd lived horror through the night

all the youth and laughter disappeared

replaced by fear and spite

deevy from the culdesac got hit between the eyes

he didn't see it coming and

he fell beneath the skies

well i'd known him since the

age of ten and sat with him in school

ah what the hell are we doing here

no hope for me or you

far away far away

ah they're dying on the battlefields for nothing

far away far away

but i promised that i'd come back home to mother

then winter came and battered us

an enemy of new

brought many fears and tragedies

to last a whole life through

i was promised an adventure

but this is a living hell

the reality of war is nothing like the posters sell

far away far away

ah they're dying on the battlefields for nothing

far away far away

but i promised that i'd come back home to mother

far away far away

ah they're dying on the battlefields for nothing

far away far away

but i promised that i'd come back home to mother