Who Remembers Me Now (Folk Version)

Seventeen and full of fire,

I signed on the dotted line

Mum stood crying at the station,

said "you'll come home just fine"

Twenty years I gave my country,

through the desert and the rain

Stood beside the best of men

I'll never see

again

Then they handed me my papers,

shook my hand and said "well done"

Now I walk along the high street

and I don't know anyone

Who remembers me now,

when the marching's done?

When the medals in the drawer don't mean a thing to anyone

I stood up when I was called,

gave everything I knew how

Just a soldier in the crowd,

who remembers me now?

Got a room above the bookies

and a job I couldn't keep

Still wake up at half past five,

still can't get back to sleep

The lads I'd die for scattered,

some are gone and some are lost Nobody tells you when you

leave

what the silence really

costs

They said the world would welcome me,

but the world had moved along

And a man who knew his place in life now don't know

where he belongs

Who remembers me now,

when the marching's done?

When the medals in the drawer don't mean a thing to anyone

I stood up when I was called,

gave everything I knew how

Just a soldier in the crowd,

who remembers me now?

One cold November morning

at the memorial in town

An old man saw my beret

and he slowly turned around

He said "I wore that badge myself,

I know the road you're on

You're not the only one,

lad,

you were never on your own"

We remember you now,

when the marching's done

Every name and every face,

every daughter, every son

You stood up when you were called,

so we stand up for you now

Hear the whole town say it loud:

we remember you now

Who remembers me now...

We remember you now