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- Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife Lyrics
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- 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 he sent her 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.
- Thank you.
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