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The Glory Road Studio Version

Words and Music fully written and composed by Erich Beck LYRICS When I was just a young man, barely eighteen years and green I was called to serve my country in her time of need I didn’t need to understand the pathway that we strode There were wiser heads than mine that sent us down the glory road CHORUS And they taught us how to march and drill, and they taught us how to kill But they never showed me the fear in a young child’s eyes And they taught me how to shoot and kill, But they never told me why Those children and their mothers had to die Those children and their mothers had to die So I got a brand new uniform, a helmet and a gun And we learned to bayonet and how to march in unison And when we did it nicely we bundled up our loads And they sent us blithely off to march along the glory road CHORUS I remember it too clearly, the shock and horror in his eyes When my bullet caught him squarely and the blood gushed from his side Was he sixteen, was he seventeen, he was young that’s all I know We left his bloody corpse lying on the glory road. CHORUS And they taught us how to march and drill and they taught us how to kill But they never showed me the terror in that young man’s eyes And they taught us how to shoot and kill but they never told me why Those soldiers, barely children, had to die. Those soldiers, barely children, had to die. We brought them desolation, and we brought them death and pain And when we’d done it once we marched to do it all again To bring a taste of freedom and the blessings it bestowed To the maimed, the dead, the mad we left along the glory road. CHORUS Then they brought us home again and we buried all our dead But the things we saw and did will burn forever in my head They proudly called us heroes for the valour that we’d shown But my soul was buried long ago, along the glory road CHORUS And they taught us how to march and drill, and they taught us how to kill But they never showed me the fear in a young child’s eyes And they taught me how to shoot and kill, But they never told me why Those children and their mothers had to die Those soldiers, barely children, had to die Those children and their mothers had to die