Lullaby for Georgie - Rome

At the first light of dawn

I’ll get my clothes out of pawn

As we grow older

The rats grow bolder

And when they sound the retreat

I’ll get you out of this heat

And they might send us alone

Into what won’t be home

Oh Rhodesia

Were you ever mine

I thought you should know that we

Are now guiltily wolfing your poetry

Oh Rhodesia

Buried in sands of time

I thought you should know that we

Are now hastily chasing each memory

Always guarded by another man’s sons

We felt it dishonourable for one

To stay out of it and how could it

Be wrong

We were fighting on the wrong side

Of a losing war and time

Has made orphans of us all

Has made cripples of us all

Oh Rhodesia

Were you ever mine

I thought you should know that we

Are now guiltily wolfing your poetry

Oh Rhodesia

Buried in sands of time

I thought you should know that we

Are now hastily chasing each memory

Oh rhodesia

Were you ever mine

I thought you should know that we

Are now guiltily wolfing your poetry

Oh Rhodesia

Buried in sands of time

I thought you should know that we

Are now hastily chasing each memory

I just won’t flee down south

Where the oceans collide

To die a broken man

To die a sorry man