Lay Down Your Arms

Anne Shelton
seq by Ron Tilden - kar by Mike M (April 2001)

Lay Down Your Arms
Music and Original Lyric by: Leon Land and Ake Gerhard
Lyric by: Paddy Roberts
Performed by: Anne Shelton in the UK (1956)
The Chordettes in the USA
Sequenced by: Ron Tilden

Come to the station, jump from the train
March at the double down lover's lane
Then in the glen where the roses entwine
Lay down your arms (Lay down your arms)
Lay down your arms and surrender to mine

My sweetheart is a soldier as handsome as can be
But suddenly they sent him away across the sea
So patiently I waited until his leave was due
Then wrote and said "My darling, I'll tell you what to do"

Come to the station, jump from the train
March at the double down lover's lane
Then in the glen where the roses entwine
Lay down your arms (Lay down your arms)
Lay down your arms and surrender to mine

A soldier is a soldier and when he's on parade
An order is an order and has to be obeyed
You've got to do your duty wherever you may be
And now you're under orders to hurry home to me

Come to the station, jump from the train
March at the double down lover's lane
Then in the glen where the roses entwine
Lay down your arms (Lay down your arms)
Lay down your arms and surrender to mine

The girl who loves a soldier is either sad or gray
'Cos first of all he's with her and then he's far away
But soldiers have their duty to answer to the call
And that is why I'm calling the loudest of them all

Come to the station, jump from the train
March at the double down lover's lane
Then in the glen where the roses entwine
Lay down your arms (Lay down your arms)
Lay down your arms and surrender to mine

Lay down your arms and surrender to mine
Lay down your arms and surrender to mine

Lay Down Your Arms
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