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Ernest Henry Johnson è stato pubblicato il 9 agosto 2024 da Checked Label Services come parte dell'album Different Drum

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AlbumDifferent Drum

Data di uscita9 agosto 2024

EtichettaChecked Label Services

Melodicità

Acousticità

Valence

Ballabilità

Energia

BPM75

PANORAMICA

TESTI

Video musicale

Video musicale

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PERFORMING ARTISTS

Luke O'Shea

Lead Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Luke O'Shea

Composer

Juliet Johnson

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Luke O'Shea

Producer

Matt Fell

Producer

William Bowden

Mastering Engineer

Testi

Earnest Henry Johnson

We just called him Pop

Had the greatest job in the whole wide world

At the Shelley Beach corner shop

Trying hard now to remember

For I was just a little girl

But there were lollipops, chips and chocolates

And my Pop who loved to serve

Memories, memories fade

It all started when he joined the AIF

Third Battalion in World War One

But his mother demanded he come back home twice

For he was still way too young

But on the day of 18 he re-enlisted

And joined the push out on the Western Front

On those Flanders Fields he learnt that hell was real

But on your brothers well you never give up

Now he survived out there for two long years

Never knowing which day would be his last

But in the trench warfare in the Battle Of Ypres

He was blinded by the mustard gas

In a world so black somehow they shipped him back

To where he wondered if he was better off dead

But in that hospital ward he won two more wars

Regaining site and with the battle in his head

Memories, some don't fade

Now with the Great War gone Pop moved back home

To where many found it way too hard

For there was no PTSD in the 1920's

So he lost more brothers in arms

Meeting sweet Isabelle love filled the dry well

And he found another reason to serve

Making a name as a cook he continued to look

After her and their children as well

Through the roaring 20's and the depression of the 30's

Together they marched on

But with World War Two he knew what he had to do

And re-enlisted in the Third Battalion

A Lance Sargent now with a lot of know how

He stood in New Guinea with the men

But at Kokoda he was told this time he was too old

So they sent him back home again

Such memories, memories fade

In the Catering Corp he continued to serve

Victoria Barracks and then Circular Quay

But when a Japanese Sub blew the Kuttabul up

He felt his skills were just wasting away

Deserting his post to help the wounded on the boat

When discharged he then asked to speak

What we're all here for is to win this war

He then enlisted in the Rag Tag Fleet

With the Yanks secretly he'd sail up to the Coral Sea

To help the wounded back to shore

And he stayed with those men till the very end

Even past the ending of the war

At Cronulla RSL the men remember him well

So many ribbons he would wear upon his chest

But he's children never knew of the hell he'd been through

And his silence put them all to the test

For like so many men before you'd never talked about the war

And the turmoil inside would just divide

But in the last years of his life he tried hard to make it right

And show us all the love he'd kept inside

I'm just trying hard to remember

For I was just a little girl

Earnest Henry Johnson

My Pop who loved to serve

Memories, memories fade

There are some memories

That should never fade

Written by: Juliet Johnson, Luke O'Shea

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