Stop the cavalry (1980)
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1. Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here
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to
say we're doing splendidly,
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but
it's very cold out here in the snow,
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marching
to and from the enemy.
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Oh, I say, it's tough, I have
had enough, can you stop the cavalry?
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2. I have had to fight almost every night,
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down
throughout these centuries,
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that
is when I say, oh yes, yet again, can you stop the cavalry?
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Mary Bradley waits at home, in
the nuclear fallout zone,
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wish
I could be dancing now, in the arms of the girl I love.
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Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum,
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dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum.
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Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum,
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dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum.
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Wish I was at home for Christmas.
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2. Bang goes another bomb on another town,
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while
the Czar and Jim have tea.
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If I get home, live to tell the tale,
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I'll run for all presidencies.
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If I get elected I'll stop, I
will stop the cavalry.
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Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum,
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dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum.
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Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum,
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dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum, dub-i-dub-i-dum.
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Wish I was at home for Christmas.
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Wish I could be dancing now, in
the arms of the girl I love,
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Mary Bradley waits at home, she's been waiting two years long.
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Wish I was at home for Christmas.
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(Jona
Lewie)