SAY GOODBYE TO IT ALL  (Chris De Burgh)
 
 
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 Took a boat over Lake Geneva    
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It was raining all night long
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 We were lucky and we saw no enemy
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and came from Switzerland,
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poor refugees far from the guns of war
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we said goodbye to it all


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They brought us in to a nurse's station
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half a mile behind the lines 
C                 D        Em 
 Oh lord how my heart was breaking 
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to see the children and the walking wounded
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hoping for a ticket home
     C       D         G
and say goodbye to it all


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 I woke up on a cold blue morning
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to see her there standing right beside me
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 long years since I left her at the borderline
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and how she found me I'll never know
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but we decided there and then
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to say goodbye to it all
       C
to it all
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say goodbye to it all say goodbye to it all


G                   C           D    
 Took a train from Paris to the ocean
 Em              C          D
found a small hotel by the coast
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 as we walked along the beaches of Normandy
    C       G   C          G 
we came to Juno Omaha and Gold
      C          G              D
and whispered a prayer for the boys
      C       D         G
who said goodbye to it all


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 Now we've got our own place by the water
    Em                   C     D  
and I have a job in the old hotel
C                       D            Em
 she's ready and she's hoping for a daughter
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well I don't mind we've made our choice
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we've got all the time in the world
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we said goodbye to it all we said goodbye to it all
           C
bye to it all
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say goodbye to it all say goodbye to it all