
The Kelly Song Collective
French Girls Smoking Cigarettes
Once I got fooled into going to war
Like tens of thousands of young men before
I went for the romance on dark foreign shores
They’ve given candy to babies
The first seven weeks were all fine and well
‘Til they sent us all into the fires of hell
And I tried to listen, but I couldn’t tell
If the devil spoke German or English
Now I lay in an unmarked grave
King and country be damned if you’re saved
And the romance I got for all that I gave
Was French girls smoking cigarettes
I dreamed of a woman and falling in love
An olive branch safe in the mouth of a dove
But no woman would love me when push came to shove
I was killed by my kindness
And just for the record I’ll let it be known
That no pipe, no drum, no bugle was blown
And the guns that fired o’er me as I was laid low
Were the murdering guns in the distance
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© Audsongs/Michael Worthington Music 1997

One of about three songs that we wrote together separately. John wrote the lyrics in the 90's sometime, I wrote the music a few years later.