A New Home

by Bob Moore © 2020 (keep the tune of Lilli Marlene in your mind) I was born in England, 1942. Dad was in the Army, and learning what to do if Jerry the German should invade he’d make them pay chase them away. my dad he was a tanker an 8th Irish Hussar On that cold winters morning when I first saw the light didn’t know the world was in the middle of a fight a fight for its freedom and way of life a world of fear of war and strife but we would go on fighting until the very end In ’46 the war was over and my dad he came home to be with his family and never more to roam, but six years later he’d gone again another war of fear and flame fighting in Korea against another foe He came home and decided it was time for us to go to leave the land where we were born and find another home so we went to Australia for peace, and sun and here ten thousand miles from home we would stop our roaming our new life had begun.