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作曲 : Traditional Song |
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One morning when the office was opened |
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A man quite old in years |
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Stood the express office |
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Showing signs of grief and tears |
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And there's a clerk approached him |
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With trembling words he said |
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I'm waiting for my boy, sir |
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He's coming home today |
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Well. You have made a silly mistake |
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But you must surely know |
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That this is the telegraph office, Sir |
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And not a town depot |
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And if your boy is coming home |
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The clerk did smile and say |
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You'll find him with the passengers, Sir |
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At the station just all the way |
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No you do not understand me, Sir |
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The old man shook his head |
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He's coming not as a passenger |
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But by express instead |
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He's coming home to mother |
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The old man gently said |
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He's coming home in a casket, Sir |
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He's coming to us dead |
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Then a whistle pierced their ears |
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The express train someone cry |
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The old man rose in a breathless haste |
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And quickly rushed outside |
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Then a long white casket |
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Was lowered to the ground |
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And showing sighs of grief and tear |
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To those who gathered around |
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He said: Do not use him roughly, boys |
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It contains our darling Jack |
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He went away as you boys are |
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This way he's coming back |
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He broke his dear old mother's heart |
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Her fears have all come true |
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She said, it's the way that he'd come home |
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If he joined the boys in blue |
