Ballad Of The Soldiers Wife

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[verse]

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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From the ancient city of prague ?
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From prague came a pair of high heeled shoes
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With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
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From the ancient city of prague

[verse]

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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From oslo over the sound ?
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From oslo There came a collar of fur
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How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
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From oslo over the sound


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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From the wealth of amsterdam ?
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From amsterdam, he got her a hat
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She looked sweet in that
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In her little dutch hat
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From the wealth of amsterdam

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[verse]

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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From brussels in belgian land ?
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From brussels he sent her the laces so rare
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To have and to wear, all those laces so rare
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From brussels in belgian land

[verse]

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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From paris, city of light ?
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From paris he sent her a silken gown
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It was ended in town, that silken gown
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From paris, city of light


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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From the south, from bucharest ?
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From bucharest he got her this shirt
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Embroidered and pert, that rumanian shirt
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From the south, from bucharest

[verse]

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What was sent to the soldier's wife
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From the far-off russian land ?
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From russia there came just a widow's veil
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For her dead to bewail in her widow's veil
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From the far-off russian land

[outro]

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