La Storia di un Soldato (Lyrics) - Ennio Morricone

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Lyrics to "La Storia di un Soldalto" (The Story of a Soldier) from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.


Bugles are calling
from prairie to shore.
Sign up and fall in
and march off to war.


Drums beating loudly,
hearts beating proudly.
March blue and grey
and smile as you go!


Smoke hides the valleys
and fire paints the plains.
Loud roar the cannons
'til ruin remains.


Bluegrass and cotton
burnt and forgotten.
All hope seems gone
so solider march on
to die.


Count all the crosses
and count all the tears.
These are the losses
and sad souvenirs.


This devastation
once was a nation.
So fall the dice.
How high is the price?


There in the distance
a flag I can see.
Scorched and in ribbons,
but whose can it be?


How ends the story?
Whose is the glory?
Ask, if we dare,
our comrades out there
who sleep.


Count all the crosses
and count all the tears.
These are the losses
and sad souvenirs.


This devastation
once was a nation.
So fall the dice.
How high is the price we pay?