Battle Hymn of our Fathers

This is a song I wrote and recorded many years ago (15 years ago?). The recording isn't the best, due to my limitations then...I was using a PC microphone dangling from a coat hangar propped on my desk in such a way as to let the microphone hang even with the sound hole of my acoustic guitar. I didn't know then what I know now about recording (which still isn't a whole lot) and I used mostly first takes if they "weren't too bad"...anyhoo, here it is...be kind

Daylight is dawning as fog shrouds the hills

Armies are marching through valleys and rills

Silence is screaming for mercy divine

As women and children are left far behind

Fathers and brothers, boys among men

Ne’er a word spoken lest sealing their end

Weapons of darkness ‘mid thickening gloom

Hope now lies dormant ‘neath quickening doom

We’ll fight till we bleed, we’ll fight till we die

Our home awaits us beyond northern skies

God of our fathers protect us we pray

With fire by night and smoke cloud by day

Our journey through sorrows we know now draws nigh

Mothers, your baby boys kiss them goodbye

I think of my lady awake where she lies

The wind brings her whispers to me through the night

Renewed with courage, I’ll fight till I die

We’ll fight till we bleed, we’ll fight till we die

Our home awaits us beyond northern skies

 by Derek Herzberg 

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