FOREVER WILL GROW GREEN'N'GOLD

MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW,MY HERO AND INSPIRATION IN WRITING IS THE GREAT SCOTTISH BORN BUT AUSTRALIA RESIDING ERIC BOGLE-WRITER OF SUCH GREAT ANTI WAR SONGS AS "THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA" AND ANOTHER GREAT SONG RECORDED IN EUROPE BY THE FUREYS "THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE"-ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS I LIKE ABOUT ERIC'S WORDS ARE,HE WASTES NOTHING,VERY FEW "LA LA LA'S" IN HIS MUSIC,ALL WORDS THAT HIT THE MARK.
I WAS WATCHING THE TELLY LASTNIGHT,WHEN ON CAME THIS STORY ABOUT AROUND 400 AUSTRALIAN AND BRITISH TROOPS POSSIBLY BEING FOUND IN A MASS GRAVE IN A FIELD IN FROMELLES , FRANCE.FRIENDS OF THE FIFTEENTH BRIGADE ASSOC LED BY LAMBIS ENGLEZOS,CLAIM TO HAVE FOUND THIS GRAVE OF SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED AROUND 1916.JUST HOW MANY BRAVE SOLDIERS LEFT THEIR SHORES,NEVER TO RETURN,BUT TO BE LOST,AND BURIED ON FOREIGN SOIL.
I WRITE THIS SONG,ON BEHALF OF AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS,SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S THE WEEK OF ANZAC DAY,(25TH APRIL)THE DAY IN AUSTRALIA THAT WE CELEBRATE THESE PEOPLE.
ERIC BOGLE ??--YES,WELL I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO ERIC,BECAUSE HE HAS A GREAT DEAL TO DO WITH ME THINKING THE WAY I DO ABOUT THESE THINGS.


FOREVER WILL GROW GREEN'N'GOLD

Our lads bled green'n'gold
in the trench's I'm told.
Sang "Matilda" as they faded
they say.
Now they lay 'neath the ground
in a spot never found
In a battlefield so far away.
ch
But the fields are so green
as have ever been seen.
and the leaves on the trees
turn to gold.
for,when they started to bleed
surely planted the seed
that forever, will grow green'n'gold

And to the Mothers
who gave us their children.
to the fathers
who gave us their sons.
May we ever remember,
in our hearts glow and ember
to remind us of what they have done.
ch
But the fields are so green
as have ever been seen.
and the leaves on the trees
turn to gold.
for ,when they started to bleed
surely planted the seed
that forever, will grow green'n'gold.

We must think of them well
for they went through the hell.
So remember on this Anzac Day.
For our children to live
twas their lives
they would give
On the battlefields so far away.
ch
But the fields are so green
as have ever been seen.
And the leaves on the trees
turn to gold.
for,when they started to bleed
surely planted the seed
that forever, would grow green'n'gold
that forever, would grow green'n'gold.


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