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so
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hey togo something's happening out there
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i think they're planning to advance well
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good
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a good board here bored and frozen makes
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me
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have a bit
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let's take a few by surprise
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let's warm too many
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we're never going to do each other we'll
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never do nothing if you keep talking
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like that
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kick marry i might think better on it
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that's two three good shotgun
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not here togo not you a boy
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best breed insult in the regiment and
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they got you
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well i'm sorry mate but i'm not stopping
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i'm off
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sorry to leave you like this but you're
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dead you're dead and gone mate
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i'll see you on the other side
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well what do you know you went to left
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me
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it bastard i thought we were mates
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in cliffhouse well so do joe
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i can make my own way on it's dark
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i can make it i could make it
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but blood
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must have taken about it somewhere
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no sign of a wound
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oh headshot
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right i'm still alive
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i can still see i can still make out
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that blasted wood
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i can still feel fill the mud and the
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ropes beneath my feet
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i can still remember still remember
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oh my gosh
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it feels like only yesterday
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don't you find all this boring sydney i
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mean
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you come in you work you have a break
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you work you have sandwiches always the
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same then work then
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and then it all starts again tomorrow
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yes it's boring
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and i won't be doing this for long
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you'll see still think you'll be boxing
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champion of the world do you
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why not not with a man yet able to best
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me in a fight
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that solid surprise is it you've only
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ever fought lads from england
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well you've got to start somewhere you
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wait and see
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you'll be reading your paper and you
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break like you always do
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then you'll see the headline sydney
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bolesworth world champion
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well i don't know when you're famous you
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remember all your old friends
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i'll never forget you bet go on i'll bet
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you will
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i bet if we met on the street 10 years
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from now you won't even remember my name
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not me you could forget you with your
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big brown eyes and
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them lips and uh well of course
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cinnamon i'm looking forward to the day
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where someone manages to knock you down
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you can do a bit of humility sid all
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this boasting
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it's not right well you'll be waiting a
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long time i can tell you that much been
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out
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well what about reg in a couch an
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accountant
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you've got to be kidding me just because
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he's good with his books doesn't mean he
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can't fight
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he's a big lesson i'll take him no
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problem bigger they are the harder they
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fall
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oh you reckon you could take and do you
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shall arrange it then yeah go on
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arrange it for a tea break give me all
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the time i need
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oh sick you're a card really you are
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ah what did i say wrong less than 10
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minutes
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look at his poor face his own mother
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wouldn't recognize him oh it's just
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bruising her
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cover he's broke my nose he's only got a
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broken
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breathing nose
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sometimes i really do look reg get back
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to accounts
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just get yourself cleared up first all
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right mr e doesn't take too kindly to
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boxing
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but i've been thinking this place
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is too small it's keeping me back
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holding me down i need to change
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are you going to do join the army
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well sis welcome to inject and ask them
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to save you picture i'll
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find time to come christmas is wonderful
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outfit odd
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i call it unnatural no turkey
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no mince pies no pudding just bleeding
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curry i like curry don't tell mrs
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painter well you like anything that's
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going
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nearly anything no questions asked
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always
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i've got a cast iron stomach you've got
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nine stomach bowls worth
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you can hit me and see if you'd like sit
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down sid we all know you're a boxer
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you've told enough people anyway anyone
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think you've been here 10 years not 10
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days away you so
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just saying that's all just saying as
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soon as i'm settled i'll be taking on
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the best of battalions
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we'll see well not too last you've eaten
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least ways
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plenty of time for boxing later boxing
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fighting killing it's all you men know
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what to do well you can do plenty of
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other things too mrs p if he gives a
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chance
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cheeky i'm a married woman i know all
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about what men can
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and cannot do thank you very much
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well sydney here's your first year in
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india and maybe one filled with success
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thank you it will be and well
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merry christmas
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paul joe paul is that you you're god
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you're happy to make it back
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where's bosworth he's bought it's a shot
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through the head
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cleaned through his helmet circle
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bleeder you were here too
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i mean legs uh can't feel it no more
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can't feel nothing no more get him to a
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medic quick man yes sir what about
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togolo
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we can't just leave him there what would
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you have me do
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send out a party to bring back a dead
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man i'd be signing their death warrants
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no paul i'm sorry togo bolsworth will be
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buried where he fell
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buried in that bloody trench hole look
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i'm sorry you were mates i know
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from the same place in glacier
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we were from enclave hinckley very well
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i'll see to the papers
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now go on get some rest
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togo bolsworth the chosen one
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that's what the name meant wasn't it
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that's what you told me that time when
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you were on the wheel
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had time when i had you done for being
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drunk and disorderly
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the chosen one
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well i hope you've learned your lesson
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your 14 days are nearly up
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got anything to say i'd stand clear if i
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were you captain
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i'm about to pee myself hell man this
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wheel could break anyone
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you've been on this wheel for weeks
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hours is a time and you're
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still a grim insubordinate little
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bastard
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will you never learn and i've learned
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not to get caught next time if that's
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what you mean sir
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i've learned that the trench lasts love
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a man like me
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one that can't pinch them off i've
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learned that the english army is full of
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sadists
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that won't let a man as he's about to
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die enjoy himself in any way
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shape or form i've learned that i can
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take a lot of pain
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i know it's going to end without me
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dying is that what you mean sir you know
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damned well it isn't
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look i know you're a fine soldier some
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would say the best in the regiment
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but you're a loose cannon someone could
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lose a life because of you
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many already have captain i'm not
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talking about germans i'm talking about
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our own men
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so what i said
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now in your own words tell me exactly
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what happened on that night in
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hull well it were a normal kind of thing
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the kind of thing what you expect when
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men have had a bit too much to drink
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that was just minding me on business
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doing what i was doing
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i might have been writing to my mother
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she's on her own you know
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anyway i was doing something can't
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remember what when this soldier walks in
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well we've had words before but this
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time he went just a bit
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too far there's only so much a man can
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take
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well i wasn't having that kind of
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language insulting
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is what it was so i got up on a clockton
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one oh good
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god man don't you realize a blow from
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someone like you could kill somebody
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never have before never did anyone
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permanent damage in the ring before
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well you were wearing gloves didn't
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always wear gloves
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anyway he went down out like a light
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perfect topper cut to the chin
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well i didn't kill him i saw he was out
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loud so i splashed him with water and
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slapped his face a bit soon enough he
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was moaning and groaning like a woman
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having a baby
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he was alive oh yeah and well enough to
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see as it was me as i'd woke him
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he just pushed me off got up and walked
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out
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i never followed him i never touched him
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again
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i watched him go staggering like the
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drunk he was
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and did you see him fall i saw him
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stumble
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but no i never saw him fall
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the next i knows is it's morning and the
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military police are dragging me out of
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bed saying as
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i'd murdered him i tell you it wasn't no
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murder
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he was alive when he left and i never
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hit him that bad
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you knocked him out i did
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and it was a sight to see just like the
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old days
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the old days in india
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well boldsworth no amount of fame will
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help you now
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it's manslaughter you're up for and
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unless i see some evidence to the
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contrary it very much does look like
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this man died of a concussion
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caused by you're hitting him and
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knocking him out
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i appreciate you never intended to kill
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i'm so mindful of the fact that your cat
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your officers have
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grouped together to pay for your offense
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that says a lot about a man
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you're obviously popular and a good
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soldier but
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this is a court of law i must stick to
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the evidence
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but you got off didn't you bolsworth
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someone testified and said that they saw
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the dead man fall and hit his head
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several times on his way back to bed
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that night
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you had a good lawyer you were lucky
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nothing lucky about
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it sir i spoke the truth my officers
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believed me and that counted for a lot
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besides i wasn't destined to die that
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day
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i'm destined for greatness that's why
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they call me togo
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told druid speak for the chosen one
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the chosen one chosen for what great
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things captain
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great things am i to even win this war
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for you
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if you ever let me fight it
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well your time's up you're free to go
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if i catch you again it'll be two months
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next time two months do you hear me
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no man chosen or not will be able to
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survive the wheel for that time
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no sir if that's all sir
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i'd like to rejoin the men and have a
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drink
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you'll never learn will you bolswell too
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old for new ways captain
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thank you for the little heart to art
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well private it looks as if they've
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shipped poorly sir
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it's a nasty wound lucky devil
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not like jose no sir
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or poor old bolsworth no sir
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he thought he was invincible thought
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he'd never die
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some strange belief he had about himself
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you were a good man captain the lads
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loved him
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made them laugh gave them hope
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a huge gap in the battalion now that
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he's gone
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yes you're right of course he was a hero
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a drunken arrogant insulin bloody man at
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times
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but a hero get the men together
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get the padre we'll say some prayers
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again would you believe it he's gone and
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done it again all
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india champion oh he was ruthless
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when he's in that ring it's like he's
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not a human being
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he's not normal he's a machine he feels
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nothing he can take anything and then
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bam
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they're down and they're out well all i
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can say
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is that i'm glad that he's my friend and
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as my friend
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he's helped me to win a hundred pounds
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you put money on him to win oh don't
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tell me you did it i didn't
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what so you bet on him lose it wasn't
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his weight was it
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what's weight got to do with it what do
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you mean he was destined to win this
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title
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you don't believe all that chosen one
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rubbish do you well don't you now after
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what you've just seen
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i don't know it's the last time i bet
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against him that's for sure
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you probably won't get another chance
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he's back home soon
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back to hinkley wherever that is near
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leicester
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you've been there before i had a girl
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there once
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sweet little thing didn't work out well
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just like this fight i hope your luck
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changes soon
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especially when the war comes you're
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doing fine
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of course we'll fight who else is there
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to put a stop to things
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champions of freedom that's who we are
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now sings i'm the one with all the money
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what about a drink to celebrate a great
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night from sogo
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don't fight no more do you hear me make
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this your last one
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you've won everything there is to win in
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india now maybe
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but they're still england i've still got
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england
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and then what another world i'll tell
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you why not
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because it would be the death of you i
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don't want to come home one day and find
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out from my husband that young
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bolesworth has bought it in the ring
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that's no way to die the way you talk i
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don't think you were in love with me mrs
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p
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love you never gives you such an idea
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last thursday afternoon in your bedroom
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for starters
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i felt sorry for you that was all a
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young man like you and not a woman to
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comfort him
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you comforted me very well mrs knows
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that did you ask me proud
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so vulgar so unromantic i'm not a
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romantic mrs painter
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i'm a realist can you at least try
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i will try harder next time
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cheeky scandal what makes you think
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there'll be a next time
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you do talking to me like this
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you guys make the most of me i'm being
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discharged soon
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back to dear old blighty back to the
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pits
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or the factory back to me mother and me
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brothers
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we're leaving next week why
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i thought
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had a good time while it lasted
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but it was never going to end well your
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husband would have found out
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and that would have been that for both
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of us
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so a few more days and it will all be
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done
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memory to keep us warm at night
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you've been wonderful mrs p i'll never
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forget what we had
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what we did what did that do on sunday
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and that day is next week i just wanted
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so much longer don't we all
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don't we all
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this is painter i wouldn't argue for one
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more kiss
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one more touch from your gentle fingers
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but there's only cold fingers for me now
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and the one who would kiss me would
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steal my final breath
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just a little while longer that's all i
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ask
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just a short while and then i'm done
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can you believe it sydney coming back a
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warrior
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i was sydney you're sydney and me you
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always had a thing for him
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you and he were even nothing never you
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mind what we were
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he's come back now and i can't wait to
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see you in his uniform there's a vc
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coming too you know
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never mind him it's did we won
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i just wanted to see him such a long
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time
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guys he's been a brave man in this war
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that's for sure
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still a vc that's really special i
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wouldn't mind those letters after me hey
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and then you should have joined up
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shouldn't you well i wasn't fit i wasn't
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fit
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you're as fit as a fiddle i'm betting
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your dad's fix it with some doctor
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beth you best mom what you're saying
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there those are strong words
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and rich doesn't deserve them he did his
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picture in those bombing raids he saved
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lives when those zeppelins came over
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sorry red forget i said anything ah
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now this looks like a man who could do
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with a bit of action
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why aren't you on the front line that
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i'm not fit he's got a chest
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we've all got a chest what's wrong with
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your
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ass man i did my bit at home no
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sure you did wretch isn't it
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red from accounts oh what's not too cold
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and a tea breaker the factory oh that's
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right sydney
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and this is remember me
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ron you're a ransom on the early fights
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i remember you
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and who prayed tell me is this
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delightful young lady at your side
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did it me uh lose me do we know each
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other
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you said you'd never forget you said
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well it looks as if i am
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sorry love but i'm a fall to have
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forgotten you
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it's beth
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ben of course oh
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beth i'm sorry how are you married
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kids i'm not married no kids
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not yet anyway welcome well good to see
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you all again
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a wretch sort that chest out and join us
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can't have you hanging around here when
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you could be killing germans in belgium
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but he can't go around telling me to
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sort out my chest
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he's not a doctor what does he know
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that's what we did
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he'd forgotten oh now they're better
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don't get upset it's been in a war he's
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bouncing we've got lots of things
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you haven't forgotten wretch well that
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was different there that fight
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have we yet
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never mind i've been a fool
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the way you treated beth justin what you
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said to this soldier that was just
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awful you shouldn't have done that what
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do you mean the fact that i forgot who
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she was
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well i shouldn't have forgotten him she
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was just a factory tar she never meant
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anything well she means something to me
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what's he mean to you
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you're old enough to be a dad you're not
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a dad ah yeah i knew her dad
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he was a mate and then he was killed
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she's got no one now no one to laugh
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after her
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so it's up to me very noble i'm sure but
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there's more important things in this
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world than remembering the name of the
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first woman you ever kissed
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there's a war on or haven't you known
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because i've noticed
00:22:59
i notice every time i read my paper or i
00:23:02
see another ice cream down the street
00:23:03
draped in a flag
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or on a sunday at church when the pews
00:23:07
are filled with weeping old women and
00:23:08
their grandkids
00:23:09
there may well be a bloody war but it
00:23:12
doesn't stop us
00:23:13
being human because as soon as we stop
00:23:16
we may as well throw in the towel we'll
00:23:18
have lost
00:23:20
that's what's happening to you you're
00:23:22
not booming
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you're a machine a cold-blooded killing
00:23:26
machine are you finished no i have not
00:23:28
finished
00:23:29
yeah that's enough we're supposed to be
00:23:31
here recruiting young men not beating up
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old ones sorry
00:23:34
sorry wrap we'll go
00:23:39
run don't ever speak to me again
00:23:42
you understand
00:23:46
someone coming this turned out to be
00:23:55
oh oh did you see the first fight the
00:23:57
one in nottingham one ended in a draw
00:23:59
i did i was a rape bruiser said would
00:24:02
not go down
00:24:03
he's a tough one that's for sure our
00:24:05
show is a proper fighter though i can't
00:24:07
see sid getting anything out of this one
00:24:08
i will see i think the crowd will lift
00:24:11
said
00:24:11
there must be thousands of us here oh
00:24:14
thousands you say
00:24:15
i'll be the ice rink on the old spot
00:24:17
we'll never get in
00:24:19
and who's going to be man enough to turn
00:24:20
us away tonight they'll fit us
00:24:22
you see
00:24:31
hello there darling you see the fight to
00:24:33
see the fight
00:24:34
did you see that fight come on give me a
00:24:37
kiss oh
00:24:38
there you go have a good evening now yes
00:24:41
you promised me promise me we'll have a
00:24:43
good evening
00:24:43
obviously you'll have a good evening
00:24:46
promise
00:24:46
give me you promise me thank you thank
00:24:49
you
00:24:50
good night to you good evening it's on
00:24:52
your way lads
00:24:55
oh it was a sight to see wasn't it
00:24:59
he was like a devil from el away went
00:25:00
after that sherwood
00:25:02
he was down before he knew what's
00:25:03
hissing oh
00:25:05
it was marvelous but frightening he
00:25:08
could have killed him
00:25:09
i thought he was wonderful and did you
00:25:11
hear the crowd
00:25:12
all cheering for him i think this must
00:25:15
be one of the happiest nights of my life
00:25:17
he can box
00:25:18
he's a fighter no mistake we'll need men
00:25:21
like him when a war starts
00:25:24
don't talk like that ron i don't like to
00:25:26
think about a war well you'll have to
00:25:28
think about it because there's one
00:25:29
coming whether you like it or not
00:25:31
and if we're going to win it we'll need
00:25:33
men like our citizen fight
00:25:36
do you think he'd win a medal like him
00:25:37
on tonight maybe
00:25:40
maybe there's a hero inside of him
00:25:41
waiting for his chance to shine
00:25:44
i like to think that there's an hero
00:25:45
inside all of us run
00:25:47
yes well maybe there is maybe there is
00:25:56
good god man i told you last time it'll
00:25:58
be two months and yet still you go out
00:26:01
and get yourself blindingly drunk
00:26:02
and throw your waiter out are you a
00:26:05
complete
00:26:06
idiot ballsworth is there something in
00:26:08
your head that is stopping you from
00:26:09
understanding
00:26:10
the basic facts of human existence you
00:26:13
are in the army
00:26:14
you obey orders you follow the rules you
00:26:17
stay alive
00:26:19
you do not go out and get yourself drunk
00:26:21
punch your fellow men
00:26:22
and smash up army equipment if you do
00:26:26
you will be punished you are a danger to
00:26:28
yourself and to my men
00:26:30
and this can't go up you have to be made
00:26:32
an example of
00:26:34
for the sake of the men well all i can
00:26:37
say is
00:26:38
it was worth it do you know why i do it
00:26:42
captain
00:26:43
i do it because if i didn't i'd go mad
00:26:48
we're all the same scared on edge
00:26:52
not knowing from one day to the next
00:26:53
whether we're going to live
00:26:55
be it be gassed
00:26:58
some pray some bottle it up
00:27:02
some like me try to forget
00:27:07
that's all i'm doing forgetting for a
00:27:10
while that i'm a human
00:27:11
target yes i understand but you need to
00:27:14
think about your behavior
00:27:16
think about the impact your behavior has
00:27:18
on the others the rest of my men
00:27:21
they're not like you the men think i'm
00:27:22
some kind of lucky child
00:27:24
some kind of hero and they're right
00:27:28
i've got the medals to prove it yes
00:27:31
that may well be but it's just not done
00:27:34
it's not cricket you mean no it bloody
00:27:37
isn't
00:27:38
it's war and it's men like me that win
00:27:41
them
00:27:42
still you've got your job to do and
00:27:45
you're doing it
00:27:46
when the time comes when i'm needed
00:27:50
i'll do mine and i'll take ever to
00:27:52
whatever punishment you think fit
00:27:54
and not complain is that right captain
00:27:56
yes that's all right you stupid bastard
00:28:06
i like this bloody job standing here
00:28:11
watching for enemy movement asking to
00:28:14
get hit
00:28:15
i've done it a thousand times and not
00:28:16
been it once you'll be all right
00:28:19
maybe some of the boys say you're our
00:28:22
lucky mascot
00:28:23
having you with us keeps us safe take no
00:28:24
notice that's just rubbish
00:28:27
keeping your eyes peeled and your gun
00:28:29
said that's what keeps you safe
00:28:32
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00:28:34
i sounded a bit close sorry they're
00:28:36
aiming for the front line we're miles
00:28:38
away
00:28:39
still maybe they're bloody bad shots i
00:28:41
don't think tonight's the night
00:28:43
why'd you say that well you know how
00:28:46
some blocks have a feeling
00:28:48
gift you might say some say they know
00:28:51
when someone's going to die
00:28:53
or if they're going to be hurt well it's
00:28:56
the same for me
00:28:58
and take it from me nothing bad's going
00:29:00
to happen tonight
00:29:01
well that is good to hear i had a bad
00:29:03
feeling about this picket juicy manner
00:29:04
told me
00:29:05
how old are you lad 17
00:29:09
too young you're just a lad i'm just as
00:29:12
much a man as you are
00:29:15
i doubt that you got a girl back home
00:29:18
dorothy little dot i call her she's
00:29:21
about five foot three
00:29:22
you planning tonight oh yeah when this
00:29:25
is over when i'm home and safe and i've
00:29:26
got a job
00:29:27
well good luck to you what time is it
00:29:33
it's gone ten two hours till we're
00:29:35
relieved
00:29:36
two hours it will fly by
00:29:40
so togo what about you anyone waiting at
00:29:43
home
00:29:44
just my mother i'm not the settling type
00:29:47
i love my sport
00:29:48
oh you're a boxer weren't you some of
00:29:50
the boys turns out they'd seen you fight
00:29:52
i was all india champion i'm midlands
00:29:54
champion
00:29:55
and if you haven't been for this damn
00:29:57
war i'd have been all england too
00:29:59
well maybe when you get older man if i
00:30:01
get to
00:30:03
i thought you said you weren't going to
00:30:04
die not today at least
00:30:06
but we're all going to die soldier
00:30:09
better get used to that idea now
00:30:11
and it'll make it so much easier when it
00:30:13
comes
00:30:14
[Music]
00:30:19
to get their specs on oh that was it i
00:30:21
said right
00:30:23
all right i've been better oh god you're
00:30:26
it you're bleeding
00:30:27
we need to get you back come on we'll do
00:30:29
no such thing let me telephone forever
00:30:31
no we wait for our relief i can stand
00:30:34
don't be a damn fool you'll bleed out if
00:30:36
the enemies start moving in the next
00:30:38
hour while i'm sitting nursing my legs
00:30:40
down who's the idiot there there we
00:30:48
stand
00:31:03
ruddy shell fell short sir he wouldn't
00:31:05
leave his post didn't want to endanger
00:31:06
the men
00:31:07
he stood his brown bravest thing i ever
00:31:09
saw he deserves a medal sir and we'll
00:31:11
probably get one too
00:31:12
now come on get him off get him passed
00:31:14
up off the hospital you there
00:31:15
take over here if you're half the man he
00:31:17
is we'll be all right
00:31:23
i was just remembering that time when
00:31:24
you stood with all that shrapnel in your
00:31:26
leg
00:31:28
bravest thing i ever saw stupid some
00:31:30
might say
00:31:31
brave you were thinking of us further
00:31:34
down the line
00:31:36
you stood there for our sake it's one of
00:31:39
those many
00:31:40
unselfish acts that we've come to see in
00:31:42
this war
00:31:46
and yet here you are now
00:31:49
i guess i'll never understand you
00:31:50
boldworth
00:31:54
never don't hold it against you
00:31:58
can't hold anything against just strap
00:32:00
like this and yet still you joke
00:32:03
well that's it i'm calling son
00:32:07
ready a man needed here
00:32:12
i can manage on my own come on let me
00:32:14
help you i said i can manage on my own
00:32:17
the day i count is the day i should be
00:32:19
taken out and shot like an old dog
00:32:23
leave him soldier
00:32:26
get some rest bob's worth busy day
00:32:29
tomorrow
00:32:38
yes he's on the mend we should have him
00:32:41
[ __ ] back
00:32:42
up to the front soon well of course
00:32:45
we need every man in england if we're
00:32:47
going to win this war
00:32:49
i thought he could walk his mother said
00:32:52
well he couldn't
00:32:53
couldn't sit for a while either but he's
00:32:56
on the mend
00:32:56
i shouldn't think he'd be here too much
00:32:58
longer
00:33:00
so are you his girl then me
00:33:04
no i'm married to someone else
00:33:07
they're just old friends grew up
00:33:10
together
00:33:10
living with my life really i see
00:33:14
well okay i'll let you see him i really
00:33:17
shouldn't
00:33:18
close family only but i'll make an
00:33:21
exception
00:33:22
thank you you're very kind
00:33:33
sid it's me
00:33:36
remember me could i forget
00:33:40
it's beth isn't it best from the factory
00:33:45
i just wondered after last time in
00:33:47
shelton
00:33:49
uh you acted as if you never knew me
00:33:52
call me orange things
00:33:53
sorry love i was just a bit too full of
00:33:56
myself
00:33:57
thought everyone was beneath me
00:34:00
regretted that
00:34:02
never mind friends again friends
00:34:06
and that was wrong
00:34:09
ron's dead
00:34:12
heart attack very sad
00:34:15
he was like a dad to you wasn't he he
00:34:17
was
00:34:19
he left me enough money in his will
00:34:20
those that me and rich could get married
00:34:22
reg that coward from a couch
00:34:27
he has asthma he does his baby works for
00:34:30
lester now for the army
00:34:32
intelligence or something you can't talk
00:34:34
about it
00:34:36
rich knocked him out in ten minutes one
00:34:39
tea break
00:34:40
i remember and how are you i heard you
00:34:44
were badly wounded
00:34:46
shot in the ass oh my god
00:34:49
but it's okay now you're going back
00:34:54
hey it's battalion back again
00:34:57
i thought you think i'd had enough of it
00:34:59
by now wouldn't you i guess you don't
00:35:01
have a choice
00:35:03
you still boxing nah finish with that
00:35:06
for now
00:35:08
but when i get back back to training
00:35:11
i'll pat that ring out again like i did
00:35:12
that time in 1913.
00:35:14
i was there with ron you were there
00:35:18
i followed you to all your fights i
00:35:20
think i was in love with you then
00:35:24
not anymore though still
00:35:27
we had that one kiss once didn't we it's
00:35:30
a bit more than a kiss sid
00:35:32
was it don't remember
00:35:35
sorry
00:35:39
and they gave you a medal too got a
00:35:42
french one
00:35:43
the crowd again oh nice what does it
00:35:45
mean the cross of war
00:35:47
funny how we use crushes in war meadows
00:35:50
i'm not so sure jesus would approve
00:35:52
that's it so we're still in inkling i
00:35:56
live in burbage now
00:35:57
oh going for the world haven't we
00:36:01
some of the little ones come along
00:36:03
you're having a baby
00:36:05
congratulations doctor says they might
00:36:08
be twins
00:36:10
once a monday kids but the thought of
00:36:13
them growing up in this
00:36:14
el all of the world makes my hair cool
00:36:16
i'll be over soon
00:36:18
you'll see you'll be back boxing in inky
00:36:20
before you know it
00:36:22
and then who knows maybe do you know
00:36:26
joe paul he's amazed he says he's from
00:36:29
burbridge
00:36:31
don't think so reg might know he's a
00:36:34
good lad
00:36:35
for someone from burbridge i mean so old
00:36:39
ron's dead
00:36:41
just collapsed on the street nice and
00:36:44
quick
00:36:45
he didn't suffer lucky son watch me
00:36:49
i mean well
00:36:53
sometimes at night when we're surfing
00:36:56
our trench
00:36:58
can hear the wounded cry calling out
00:37:03
sometimes it's just a trick to get us to
00:37:05
come up again
00:37:08
sometimes it's real
00:37:11
they can cry for hours
00:37:16
when my number's up i just stop it's
00:37:17
quick for ron
00:37:19
don't say that you'll curse yourself and
00:37:21
you're frightening me
00:37:23
sorry love lucky as the doctor
00:37:27
come to have a look at my wound so
00:37:29
unless you want an eye full of blistered
00:37:31
buttocks
00:37:31
you'd bless me off but it's nice of you
00:37:34
to come
00:37:36
nice to be remembered and see you again
00:37:40
anytime be here for a while yeah
00:37:54
well ryan you seem to have healed up
00:37:56
nicely
00:37:58
i shouldn't think you need to stay here
00:37:59
much longer
00:38:01
we should be able to get your ship back
00:38:02
up to the front soon
00:38:04
maybe in the next couple of days
00:38:05
whatever you say doc yes
00:38:08
so was she the one that got away
00:38:11
yeah she had a luckiest head
00:38:15
she's much better off now much better
00:38:19
off
00:38:22
patched you up paul let me guess sir
00:38:25
i'll leave sir medic says they'll send
00:38:27
me back though
00:38:28
then what are you doing out here
00:38:35
that's very good of you you were mates
00:38:37
weren't you yes sir
00:38:39
sad day paul sad day
00:38:43
it's not for him okay it's just a bloody
00:38:45
hand playing their games
00:38:46
sounds like him sir what if he is alive
00:38:51
right what if it is him what if his
00:38:53
wound weren't fatal
00:38:55
what if he's waiting out there for us to
00:38:56
come no no one would come
00:39:01
in fact they only want to be stupid
00:39:03
enough to risk everything would be
00:39:04
bolsworth himself
00:39:06
never a thought for his own safety when
00:39:08
it came to times like these
00:39:11
but it's not him private
00:39:14
he's got out for the count he might say
00:39:19
he would have grown boxer sir i once saw
00:39:22
him big billy sherwood from a crowd of
00:39:24
three thousand
00:39:25
he did him in two it was an amazing
00:39:27
night
00:39:29
he wore a bloody brilliant fighter that
00:39:31
he was
00:39:33
that he was
00:39:36
still let's get some rest eh
00:39:41
i can't stand being out here listening
00:39:45
good night paul and good luck good night
00:39:48
sir thank you sir
00:40:09
see see if that's you
00:40:14
it's me joe paul
00:40:18
now we can't come and get you it'll be
00:40:21
suicide but i bet you know that i
00:40:25
but i didn't want to leave you so
00:40:28
william here all night
00:40:33
you're not alone see
00:40:38
why'd you have to go and leave although
00:40:40
you were so full of life
00:40:52
she were a stunner no mistake
00:40:56
could have made her happy
00:41:00
would have broke her heart
00:41:04
oh well just as my day
00:41:11
looks like no one's coming
00:41:26
what do you expect dog on the old mates
00:41:30
who dress their neck for someone who's a
00:41:32
dead man anyway
00:41:35
no one that's stupid
00:41:39
still it would have been nice
00:41:43
would have been good to hold somebody's
00:41:45
hand
00:41:47
i think that's idea paul
00:41:51
not a bad lad
00:41:55
not bad for a garbage lad see
00:42:00
see if that's you it's me joe paul
00:42:04
now we can't come and get you it'll be
00:42:06
suicide but i bet you know that i
00:42:10
but i didn't want to leave you so
00:42:13
when i met all night
00:42:18
you're not alone sid oh why'd you have
00:42:21
to go and leave jose
00:42:23
you were so full of life hey
00:42:28
joe that you
00:42:32
it's me togo
00:42:35
the chosen one
00:42:40
you know me in clay lads
00:42:45
can you hear me i could have been
00:42:48
champion of the world
00:42:52
champion
00:42:56
stay with me joel
00:43:00
just stay warm
00:43:03
till the end i think i'm done
00:43:11
one two
00:43:16
three four
00:43:21
five six
00:43:52
um
00:43:56
[Applause]
00:44:26
you