| Song | Soldier's Song |
| Artist | The Hollies |
| Album | Essential |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Lyrics:Batt Music:Batt | |
| The smoke was slowly rising as the light began to fade | |
| There were fires on the skyline from some distant border raid | |
| I was riding out at seventeen to join my first brigade | |
| Many years ago | |
| And I chanced upon a farmhouse where the woman took me in | |
| She gave me food and wine she gave me shelter from the wind | |
| She delayed me from my regiment and service of my king | |
| Many years ago | |
| She said 'Soldier before I lose you to the fight | |
| Oh my soldier I'll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman | |
| When I rose next morning I was gone before she stood | |
| Tore myself away from there and left without a word | |
| The sound of distant infantry was the only sound I heard | |
| On that morning | |
| And in that day I aged ten years and died a thousand deaths | |
| I learned the feel of frozen steel and fear within my breast | |
| But the lesson I'll remember till they lay me to my rest | |
| Keeps returning | |
| chorus | |
| And when the dice of war were thrown and victory was won | |
| My drunken young compatriots went out to have their fun | |
| And there was no single house they didn't burn or overrun on that evening | |
| And I rode out to that place again as hard as I could ride | |
| But I found her by the cradle on that lonely mountainside | |
| In the hands of those brave friends of mine she suffered and she died | |
| Many years ago | |
| 'Soldier before I lose you to the fight' | |
| She said 'Soldier I'll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman |
| Lyrics: Batt Music: Batt | |
| The smoke was slowly rising as the light began to fade | |
| There were fires on the skyline from some distant border raid | |
| I was riding out at seventeen to join my first brigade | |
| Many years ago | |
| And I chanced upon a farmhouse where the woman took me in | |
| She gave me food and wine she gave me shelter from the wind | |
| She delayed me from my regiment and service of my king | |
| Many years ago | |
| She said ' Soldier before I lose you to the fight | |
| Oh my soldier I' ll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman | |
| When I rose next morning I was gone before she stood | |
| Tore myself away from there and left without a word | |
| The sound of distant infantry was the only sound I heard | |
| On that morning | |
| And in that day I aged ten years and died a thousand deaths | |
| I learned the feel of frozen steel and fear within my breast | |
| But the lesson I' ll remember till they lay me to my rest | |
| Keeps returning | |
| chorus | |
| And when the dice of war were thrown and victory was won | |
| My drunken young compatriots went out to have their fun | |
| And there was no single house they didn' t burn or overrun on that evening | |
| And I rode out to that place again as hard as I could ride | |
| But I found her by the cradle on that lonely mountainside | |
| In the hands of those brave friends of mine she suffered and she died | |
| Many years ago | |
| ' Soldier before I lose you to the fight' | |
| She said ' Soldier I' ll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman |
| Lyrics: Batt Music: Batt | |
| The smoke was slowly rising as the light began to fade | |
| There were fires on the skyline from some distant border raid | |
| I was riding out at seventeen to join my first brigade | |
| Many years ago | |
| And I chanced upon a farmhouse where the woman took me in | |
| She gave me food and wine she gave me shelter from the wind | |
| She delayed me from my regiment and service of my king | |
| Many years ago | |
| She said ' Soldier before I lose you to the fight | |
| Oh my soldier I' ll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman | |
| When I rose next morning I was gone before she stood | |
| Tore myself away from there and left without a word | |
| The sound of distant infantry was the only sound I heard | |
| On that morning | |
| And in that day I aged ten years and died a thousand deaths | |
| I learned the feel of frozen steel and fear within my breast | |
| But the lesson I' ll remember till they lay me to my rest | |
| Keeps returning | |
| chorus | |
| And when the dice of war were thrown and victory was won | |
| My drunken young compatriots went out to have their fun | |
| And there was no single house they didn' t burn or overrun on that evening | |
| And I rode out to that place again as hard as I could ride | |
| But I found her by the cradle on that lonely mountainside | |
| In the hands of those brave friends of mine she suffered and she died | |
| Many years ago | |
| ' Soldier before I lose you to the fight' | |
| She said ' Soldier I' ll make a man of you tonight' | |
| She took me over in the fading fireglow | |
| On that wild and misty night she was my woman |