What's your hurry can't you stay and pass an hour away
And we'll sit and dream a while by candlelight
For when
the long days over that's the time I fear the most
When I hear your footsteps fade into the night
Chorus
You're restless tell me why there's a teardrop in you're eye
And I've seen it there a hundred times before
And
I know you're going to leave me and it always breaks my heart
For you seldom come to see me any more
I well recalled that day when my ship it sailed away
To a far off distant land across the sea
Where a cruel war
was raging where time was standing still
And blind hatred was the order of the day
Chorus
I know it can't be said for a soldier's wife to hear
How he helped to keep his country proud and free
No ------
or fancy ribbons can ever ease the pain
When he comes back half the man he used to be
