We meet again old friends another year
Has come and gone, just another year
And as we stand in silence lest we forget
All our mates who fell ; still lie buried there
We’ve seen a war together, met on the train
Said when we come back you know I’ll ….see you again
And here we are another year …….my friends .
Remember war times long ago in a foreign bar alone
A drink damn bloody sacrifice and then we’d stumble home
And still today I wonder would I have gone if I had known
You know at 17 could you kill a man
could you live with ….that as you looked him in the eyes
Chorus
So Goodbye my Veteran friend with tears the people mourn
Another wartime hero not marching Anzac Dawn
So Goodbye my Veteran friend with tears the people mourn
Another wartime hero not marching Anzac Dawn
We used to talk old memories by the riverside
I’ts hard to think now but it never leaves my mind
Now I’m old and tired and I can’t help giving in
And all I say is Goodbye My friend
Chorus
So Goodbye my Veteran friend with tears the people mourn
Another wartime hero not marching Anzac Dawn
So Goodbye my Veteran friend with tears the people mourn
Another wartime hero not marching Anzac Dawn
We meet again old friends another year
How we’ve come and gone in just another year
Who will bare our cross when we have gone
Who’ll be left to carry on ……for just another year .
We shared a cigarette , I wondered why
I held you in my arms beneath that foreign sky
I felt your dying breathe that ripped my heart inside
And through the night you whispered
goodbye ………….
