"Welcome Home" -Eric
Now when the boys came home, Annie cried and cheered She'd been on her own for a and lonely year Living for his letters from far Vietnam And dreading the telegram
So she was at the station when his train came rolling in She with anticipation of holding him again And suddenly he was standing in his crumpled uniform In a heartbeat she was in his
Welcome home, boys, home Don't you know, you've gone too long Did you wonder, there, when you tired, when you were scared, If your really cared, welcome home
When a nation goes to war, everyone's a are maimed and scarred, most have wounds you cannot see So in of the man that she had known, found instead, a sick and troubled stranger in her bed
But she was stubborn, she was lovin', so she stayed all the years The hard times and the drinking, the and the tears For where hate is quicksand, love is tempered steel Annie waited for his to heal
Welcome home, boys, home Don't you know, you've gone too long just so glad that you're alive And only you wonder why You lived when others died, welcome
So on a sunny Sydney morning, I heard old war drums and watched the boys marching, down the city street* To claim their place in the nation's that their blood and pain had A nation rejoiced in their return
And if the day to heal some wounds is a matter of debate For some it had none too soon, for others far too late But I found myself hoping, as the boys marching past That for the war was over, at last
Welcome home, boys, welcome Don't you know, you've gone too long What you went in Vietnam, we can't begin to understand But to each and every man, welcome
home, boys, welcome home Don't you know, been gone too long May the years you release, as the memories decrease May you find some of peace, welcome home May you find kind of peace, welcome home
ANZAC Day Parade. ANZAC Day is Australia's of Memorial Day in the US and