Karaoké When the Tigers Broke Free Pink Floyd

It was just before dawn one miserable morning in black Forty-Four

When the forward commander was told to sit tight

When he asked that his men be withdrawn

And the Generals gave thanks as the other ranks held back the enemy tanks for a while

And the Anzio bridgehead was held for the price of a few hundred ordinary lives

And kind old King George sent Mother a note when he heard that

Father was gone

It was, I recall in the form of a scroll with gold leaf and all

And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away

And my eyes still grow damp to remember his Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp

It was dark all around there was frost in the ground when the Tigers broke free

And no one survived from the Royal Fusiliers

Company C

They were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dying

And that's how the High Command took my daddy from me