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Tommy Gunn with music composed and performed live in concert by Luke Jackson on Facebook HERE and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas on Facebook HERE.
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Tommy Gunn Lyrics
Our Tommy’s in Afghanistan
That land of blood and sand
He’s doing all he can
Fighting the Taliban
Says he ‘defending the flag’
While counting the body bags
As yet another friend fell
In that God forsaken hell
Tommy
Tommy
Our flesh and blood
May God bring you on back
To this green land that you love
It’s a war that just can’t be won
With tanks and bombs and guns
The enemy hides then runs
Laughing like mad dogs at Englishmen in the mid-day sun
Like is life is life
No matter what the trouble or strife
No-one should be a pawn in the game
Or just a number without a name
Tommy
Tommy
Our flesh and blood
May God bring you on back
To this green land that you love
Uncle Sam and us in the mud
Drowning in our own blood
Politicians don’t feel
Those feelings that are real
We’re in too deep can’t get out
There are no saviours about
As another Tommy goes off to war
Does anyone ask ‘What are we fighting for’?
Tommy
Tommy
Our flesh and blood
May God bring you on back
To this green land that you love
Heard Tommy’s name on Sky News
Said ‘all they found were his shoes’
He’d stepped on a mine near a school
In war there are no rules
And the guy who laid the bomb
That killed our Tom
Gets a hundred dollar bills
For each Tommy he kills
Tommy
Tommy
Our flesh and blood
May God bring you on back
To this green land that you love
Tommy
Tommy
Our flesh and blood
The plane carries you back
To this green land that you love
Paul Robert Thomas
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