What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From the ancient city of Prague ?
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From Prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
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With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
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From the ancient city of Prague.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From Oslo over the sound ?
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From Oslo he sent her a collar of fur,
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How it pleases her, the little collar of fur
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From Oslo over the sound.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From the wealth of Amsterdam ?
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From Amsterdam, he got her a hat,
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She looked sweet in that,
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In her little Dutch hat
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From the wealth of Amsterdam.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From Brussels in Belgian land ?
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From Brussels he sent her the laces so rare
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To have and to wear,
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All those laces so rare
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From Brussels in Belgian land.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From Paris, city of light ?
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From Paris he sent her a silken gown,
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It was ended in town, that silken gown,
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From Paris, city of light.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From the South, from Bucharest ?
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From Bucharest he got her this shirt
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Embroidered and pert, that Rumanian shirt
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From the South, from Bucharest.
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What was sent to the soldier’s wife
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From the far-off Russian land ?
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From Russia there came just a widow’s veil
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For her dead to bewail in her widow’s veil
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From the far-off Russian land,
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From the far-off Russian land.
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The Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife
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| Polly Jean Harvey |
