מילים לשיר The Soldiering Life – Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town
I likened to a radio
The call to arms you likened to a whisper
You were a brick bat, a bowery tuff, so rough
Pulled out of your pantaloons
They called you from a cartoon But You
My brother in arms
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm But You
My bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin And the mortars may fall
But I
I never felt so much life
Than tonight
Huddled in the trenches
Gazing on the battle field
Our rifles blaze away
We blaze away Corporal Bradley of regiment five
In proud array standing by the bathing
Soldiers and the stevedores
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
Cradled in our dungarees
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies
But You
My brother in arms I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm But You
My bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin
And the mortars may fall I never felt so much life
But I
Than tonight
Huddled in the trenches
Gazing on the battle field
We blaze away
Our rifles blaze away
We blaze away
We blaze away.