Big Country - Where The Rose Is Sown lyrics

we're at war all the papers say

we will win i read today

we are strong it wasn't us

we are right who started this?

leave your work i just left school

leave your home i am no fool

take up arms it left me strong

sound alarms the school bell rings

sons of men who stand like gods

we give life to feed the cause

and run to ground our heathen foe

our name will never die

this time will be forever

join up here i wave goodbye

we need you oh my breast sighs

have no fear i must try

god will be with braver men

take the vow i know its right

praise the flag the good fight

we're at war i'm on my way

we will win why do i pray ?

i wait here in this hole

playing poker with my soul

i hold the rifle close to me

it lights the way to keep me free

if i die in a combat zone

box me up and ship me home

if i die and still come home

lay me where the rose is sown

sons of men who stand like gods

we give life to feed the cause

and run to ground our heathen foe

our name will never die

this time will be forever

-from the album "steeltown" by big country

lyrics written by Stuart Adamson of big countryy