Evamore - This Christmas Time lyrics

Christmas trees lined all along the tops
Of trenches paper lanterns and
Illuminations and all sorts we were
Only 50 yards away and
A German soldier shouted "tomorrow
You no shoot, we no shoot" but
Can we trust them? We came
Out and shook hands
Exchanged cigars and exchanged stories of
Our families and lives a
Lively game of football ensued and
Then we took in
Our dead friends from No Mans
Land to bury them
On this beautiful Christmas daya
Day they'd never see

What I believed was total madness just hours
Ago was happening bеfore
My eyesenglish, Bavarians
Scots and Frеnchno Mans Land had become
Every mans land men who
Had been killing each other for
Months all laughed together

A single star stood out in the sky above
All these men as they mixed and
Gathered like a special sign
These Germans weren't
All bad but I fear there will
Be war here for many years and Christmas will
Come and gobut I will still be
This soldier i handed the
Germans wooden crosses
To bury their nine dead friends
Then had to look back again and
Again to believe this was even
Happening as this was not the time
Of warit was Christmas time

I watched the beauty of dawn
As it rosea hot coffee
A plum pudding with the ladsbut
I wish I was home with you and the
Children i miss their sweet little faces
Full of excitement as I'm sure
Santa Claus will come
For thembut not for me
Not in this place our silent night has passed
Today is now Christmas Day and I met
The best shot in the whole
German army who'd killed a
Lot of our menmany of
My friendswe shared pipes
Corned beef and jam but I now know where he
Hides and I will down him tomorrow! Merry
Christmas he yelled and smiled
And was gonethen we
Turned our backswar was still upon us

In the silence of this dark blue night
Shone a star so strangely bright
Frozen men huddled for the fight
Is this war worth dying for?

Christmas trees lined up all in a row
Paper lanterns flicker and glow
Below cold trenches and the
Glistening pale snow
Lay a thousand ghosts of war

We wish you peace
Shoot the stars down from the sky
We wish you peace this Christmas time

They said go fight for your country
Don't they know it's Christmas time
It's snowing now and no mans land lays empty
Our war's gone think God's called time

It don't seem right to still be killing
No no not at Christmas time
Brought me here with the old kings shilling
And I'll stay for Auld Lang Syne

Cigars and corned-beef now a merry night
No bayonets, bullets - no stranger sight
Our dead we buried on this silent night
Even war has a Christmas Day

O ye who read this truthful rime
From Flanders fields for all mankind
Kneel and say God speed the time
It shall be our Christmas time

We wish you peace
Shoot the stars down from the sky
We wish you peace this Christmas time

They said go fight for your country
Don't they know it's Christmas time
It's snowing now and no mans land lays empty
Our war's gone think God's called time

We'll remember this Christmas time
We'll remember this Christmas time
Merry Christmas my darling merry Christmas