Bill Fay - Bill Fay

Gentle Willie

Willie was a sailor
He sailed on the sea
And Willie said a sailor's life
Is the life for me
But they sent him into battle
For to lay down his life
And Willie said a sailor's life is not for me

So Willie joined the air force
He learnt how to fly
And Willie said how happy
He was flying in the sky
But they sent him into battle
For to lay down his life
And Willie said the air force is no life for me

Now Willie got to thinking
People were plotting for his life
So he bought himself a watchtower
And locked himself inside
But the tower looked o'er a battlefield
Where men laid down their lives
And Willie had to laugh but then he cried



Credits
Writer(s): Bill Fay
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Garden Song
  2. The Sun Is Bored
  3. We Want You to Stay
  4. Narrow Way
  5. We Have Laid Here
  6. Sing Us One of Your Songs May
  7. Gentle Willie
  8. Methane River
  9. The Room
  10. Goodnight Stan

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Altri album

  1. Still Some Light: Part 2
  2. Still Some Light: Part 1
  3. Countless Branches (Deluxe Edition)
  4. Filled With Wonder Once Again
  5. Shame (1,000 Days, 1,000 Songs)
  6. War Machine
  7. Who Is the Sender?
  8. A Page Incomplete
  9. Life Is People
  10. Life Is People [Spotify Exclusive]

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