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Soldier's Row

from Prisoners of the Heart by Mark Lucas

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In 2003 then PM John Howard sent this nation to yet another pointless & tragic foreign conflict. If I was a believer I'd say he should burn in hell... I'll settle for his slow ignominious death.

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Young Jack left home one fine bright morning
With a spring in his step and the world in his eye
It’s a black dirt, yellow sun, red sky country
Jackie won’t you come on home
He was another country kid, a boy who’d barely grown
The last words his mother had for him were Jackie won’t you come on home

Young Jack never meant to leave the pastures
But there was no room now on his Daddy’s land
So he traded fence-lines for a foreign border
Dust & steers for sand & oil
He never knew why he was really going it just seemed the way to go
The last words his mother had for him were Jackie won’t you come on home

Young Jack sailed away across the ocean
Do your bit son & do your country proud
And armchair generals dream of history
While the boys stand up and the boys fall down
They told him God was on his side as he marched down Soldier’s Road
The last words his mother had for him were Jackie won’t you come on home

Sometimes the thing worth fighting for is the right to stand your ground
Young men die in old men’s wars so the money goes around

Young Jack came home a dead war hero
In a flag draped box on a transport plane
Yeah they made their speeches over his body
And his mother wept upon his grave

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from Prisoners of the Heart, released January 22, 2019

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Mark Lucas Sydney, Australia

Australian roots music – it’s a sense of place. In singer-songwriter Mark Lucas' word picture world you’ll encounter ghosts of the past & yearning spirits of the present, making themselves known in a variety of familiar locales, together with a motley cast of misfits & dreamers who could fit in just about anywhere there’s people & stories to tell. ... more

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