Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free lyrics

It was just before dawn<br>One miserable morning in black 'forty four.<br>When the forward commander<br>Was told to sit tight<br>When he asked that his men be withdrawn.<br>And the generals gave thanks<br>As the other ranks held back<br>The enemy tanks for a while.<br>And the anzio bridgehead<br>Was held for the price<br>Of a few hundred ordinary lives.<br><br>And old king george<br>Sent mother a note<br>When he heard that father was gone.<br>It was, I recall,<br>In the form of a scroll,<br>With gold leaf and all.<br>And I found it one day<br>In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.<br>And my eyes still grow damp to remember<br>His majesty signed<br>With his own rubber stamp.<br><br>It was dark all around.<br>There was frost in the ground<br>When the tigers broke free.<br>And no one survived<br>From the royal fusiliers company c.<br>They were all left behind,<br>Most of them dead,<br>The rest of them dying.<br>And that's how the high command<br>Took my daddy from me.