Tytuł: The ballad of the soldier's wife

• Wykonawca: PJ Harvey
• Wyświetleń: 250

What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From the ancient city of Prague ?
   From Prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
   With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
   From the ancient city of Prague.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From Oslo over the sound ?
   From Oslo he sent her a collar of fur,
   How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
   From Oslo over the sound.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From the wealth of Amsterdam ?
   From Amsterdam, he got her a hat,
   She looked sweet in that,
   In her little Dutch hat
   From the wealth of Amsterdam.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From Brussels in Belgian land ?
   From Brussels he sent her the laces so rare
   To have and to wear,
   All those laces so rare
   From Brussels in Belgian land.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From Paris, city of light ?
   From Paris he sent her a silken gown,
   It was ended in town, that silken gown,
   From Paris, city of light.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From the South, from Bucharest ?
   From Bucharest he got her this shirt
   Embroidered and pert, that Rumanian shirt
   From the South, from Bucharest.
  
   What was sent to the soldier’s wife
   From the far-off Russian land ?
   From Russia there came just a widow’s veil
   For her dead to bewail in her widow’s veil
   From the far-off Russian land,
   From the far-off Russian land.