I Want to Go Back To Blighty
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Title | I Want to Go Back To Blighty |
Composer | Davidson, Wm. B. (Lieut.) |
Lyricist | Walker, Lee M. |
Publisher | Chappell & Co. Ltd. |
Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.) |
Year of Publication | 1918 |
Date of Copyright | 1918-06-20 |
Lyrics | I Want to go Back to Blighty Verse: On a cold, dark night in a front line trench Crouched a soldier in the rain, In the battle’s lull his thoughts went home, And he humm’d a song’s refrain He turned his face to the somber sky As a star-bomb rent the air With the burst of the shell like a scream from Hell, From his lips there arose this prayer Refrain: Oh! I want to go back to Blighty I want to go back tonight Give me the bliss of my baby’s kiss, Then I’ll come back and fight. But I want to go back to Blighty I fear not the shrapnel’s rain Just one fond embrace, Then back to my place To fight like a soldier again Verse: Thro’ the long drear days the battle raged on, The soldier’s hope was strong, But he yearn’d for the day he would be on his way, And he sang a battle song He called to the boys in the trench by his side With a message of hope and of cheer And he said “Let us fight with all our might Then we’ll go back to those we hold dear.” Refrain |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_317 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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I Want To Go Back To "Blighty" - Lyrics |