Miss Emily Brown - The Diary of Amy Briggs | Текст песни

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• Miss Emily Brown
• The Diary of Amy Briggs

never swore until this goddamned war
Twelve hour shifts and sirens all night long
I work a ten to ten alongside Iris
She tells me all about her escapades

Broad-minded lady, she had twins at twenty
She never married, she said two was plenty
She diagnosed me sexual starvation
Read all about it in mass observation

What you need now
Is a really good bad habit
Ask the war-sister
She’s an old hat at it

I never smoked until this goddamned war
Sit in the torch-light, hear the gun-fire
I work a six to six and home to the private
He’s got a week long leave, I don’t think I’ll survive it

He lights up into everything he sees
Me and our daughters sitting one, two, three
He burns his dinner and a week long ration
And this old waltz is going out of fashion

What you need now
Is a really good bad habit
Ask the war-sister
She’s an old hat at it
I never drank until this goddamned war
A pommia, the strongest drink I know to order
On my day off I do the wash and black lead
Today I take the girls to see a show instead

And in the darkness of the Odeon I let it go
I yelled and cried when President Wilson’s wife died
I reconcile to do the things I am accused of
Stop turning down every man like I am used to

What you need now
is a really good bad habit
Ask the war-sister
She’s an old hat at it