SAY GOODBYE TO IT ALL
by Chris de Burgh

We took a boat over Lake Geneva.
It was raining all night .
We were lucky and we saw no enemy.
And came from Switzerland, poor ,
Far from the guns of .
We said goodbye to it all.

They brought us to a nurse's station,
Half a mile the lines.
Oh, Lord, how my heart was breaking
To see the children and the walking ,
Hoping for a ticket home.
And say goodbye to it all.

I woke up on a cold morning,
To see her there, standing right beside me.
Long years since I left her at the .
And how she found me I'd never know.
But we decided there and then,
To say goodbye to it all.
Say goodbye to it all,
Say goodbye to it all...

Took a train from Paris to the ocean.
Found a small hotel by the .
As we walked along the beaches of Normandy,
We came to Juno, Omaha and Gold,
And a prayer for the boys,
Who said goodbye to it all.

Now we've got our place by the water,
And I have a job in the old hotel.
She is ready and she's hoping for a .
Well, I don't mind, we've made our choice,
We've got all the time the world.
We said goodbye to it all.

We said goodbye to it all,
Say goodbye to it all,
Say goodbye to it all,
Say goodbye to it all,
Say goodbye to it all.