The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often
  Well I thought that he was asking me to dance
  In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet
  We'd have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance
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  And now you say that you've got to go
  Well if you must you must
  I suppose that you need the sleep of the just
  
  Well it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road
  And I kept my strong opinions to my chest
  I suppose I should have told them that I was on fire for you
  When the bus burst into flames outside some place, 'The Poet's Rest'
  
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  A girl woke up in a naked light and said "Oh no not again"
  He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him
  He'll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl
  Saying, 'You're some mother's daughter you know or is it
  immaterial girl?'
  
  Now she's pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town
  All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions
  And as they speculate what she'd look like beneath that thin nightgown
  His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down