Name: Only You by BobtheAutoharp
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: My version of the Flying Pickets version of Alison Moyet's version of this great Vince Clarke song. Only instrument is a drum. The other nine singers are all me.

"I wrote this song about Harry Farr - a WW1 Soldier who was shot for 'desertion' and finally received a pardon 90 years after his death. His trial had lasted 20 minutes. His family had always argued that Harry was suffering from shell shock and should have been hospitalised or sent home but instead was executed for cowardice." Reg Meuross regmeuross.com

the moon is slowly sinking the final moon i’ll see
my head is tired of thinking there’s just the rosary
an empty place at table and my mother’s eyes are wet
the hand of god came down last night
and jesus wept

if i’d been a captain they would have sent me home
but i am just a private condemned to die alone
the firing squad’s been drinking it’s a dawn they won’t forget
the hand of god came down last night
and jesus wept

sound the drum for their young precious years
but no glory will shine on my poor mother’s tears

a soldier’s good for fighting that’s what my father said
and if the man’s not fighting he might as well be dead
shame has drawn the curtains and the neighbours won’t forget
the hand of god came down last night
and jesus wept

i got the shakes on tuesday i cannot go i said
they sent me down on wednesday by thursday i was dead
i fought for king and country 2 years without regret
the hand of god came down last night
and jesus wept

we all fall in the cause of the free
when the sun sets on england will you think of me?

in unmarked graves in flanders lie 300 boys and men
killed un-loved and frightened by those they thought were friends
a nation’s guilty secret is this generation’s debt
the hand of god came down last night
and jesus wept

Powerful and extraordinary storytelling through song. Imagine the likes of Harry Farr, Victor Jara, Emily Davison and Sophie Sholl and others in one room for a night or a festival set “Meuross is one of the most talented storytellers of our generation.” Penny black Music.

To book Reg: katie@fromthewhitehouse.com

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