I WROTE THIS JAN THIS YEAR, as a poem and with a few changes to a song and i have donated it to the Liverpool pals memorial fund. a regested charity out soon with possable a video. i will up date when cd or video are due out work still being carried out in the studio, i just ask you if you like it to pass the word. VIDEO TAKEN ON THE SOMME AT LE TOMMIES CAFE 1st JULY 2011 I,LL SHOW YOU THE WAY. Written by : Tony Rodaway Set to music by : Graham Walker FULL COPYWRITE The pals are sleeping out tonight preparing for the early morning fight Will they be there with wasted gun and resting in the watching mid-day sun ‘Come along with me son, I’ll show you the way’ ‘You stick by my side now, no matter what I say’ ‘We will need a little luck to get us through the nightmare of the day’ Then the whistle blew again............. and we all began to pray ‘So stick here by my side son, no matter what I say’ Come along with me lad, I’ll show you the way’ The boys had now just entered............ a man made raging hell Deafened by the dreadful noise...... and the bursting of the shells ‘Has anyone seen tommie Boy?’ the frantic Sergeant cried ‘Not since we went over’, a liverpool pal replied Then a young voice shouted out....... ‘Sarge I’m over here’ ‘I think I’ve took one in my side’.....’I can feel my mother near...’ ‘It’s nothing but a scratch son’.....’You will be alright’ You will soon be ready again...........to take on the next fight’ When the stretcher bearers came, the sun was going down They took him to the dressing trench, and laid him on the ground tommie Boy now he bled out, and died just where he lay, Along with all the other men, who also died that day The sergeant he was heart broke........ for tommie was his son He was after sweet revenege....and sought to kill someone The sergeant never got the chance that he was looking for As a German gunners bullet sent him crashing to the floor And just then in the white light.... a young sweet boy appeared An outstretched arm, a smiling face.....a voice that he had heard Come along with me dad, I’ll show you the way They’ll be no more suffering or pain for us today We’ll be meeting up with Pals........a little later on They’ll be resting every one.....in the watching mid-day sun Come along with me dad, I’ll show you the way Stick along with me dad, no matter what I say And as the sun sets....no soldier wins in a bloody war!
pleased you liked it john , as soon as its ready, good chance it could be played on salford city radio. or a local liverpool station. i will let you know. just hope it makes money for the liverpool pals memoriel fund tony
a snip of I,LL SHOW YOU THE WAY, thanks to garry from the swarm web site, 1 min. 50 sec, enjoy band is graham walker,anthony roach,nigel dunn and dave hobson , the ratcatchers http://www.swarm.net63.net/tony.mp3
