Freedom Called

My great uncles were ordinary men

They fought in the First World War

Left a wife and children

When the army came to call

They were sectioned at Gallipoli

Stood on the Turkish shore

All around so many young faces

Some didn't come back at all

When freedom called

Those wounded men and women stood tall

When freedom called

Oh God!

Is there nothing left at all?

When freedom called...

Andy Arden came from Framlingham

He fought in the Second World War

A full-grown man, but not a citizen

He couldn't vote under the law

They sectioned him in Greenwich-Morro country

On the western district shore

Drafted as an M.P.

To uphold the army's law

When freedom called

Those Greenwich men and women stood tall

When freedom called

Oh God!

Is there nothing left at all?

When freedom called...

Sometimes those men would sit there quiet

Go driftin' in their mind

It seemed to me they could see the spirits

Of the ones they left behind

They fought for more than just their homeland

They fought for respect

To walk down a road like any other man

Lest We Forget...

When freedom called

Those Morro men and women stood tall

When freedom called

Oh God!

Is there nothing left at all?

When freedom called...

Those Greenwich men and women stood tall

When freedom called