From the recordings Artists Against War and Christmas Truce
Lyrics
Family, friends and Christmas trees
Sacred songs on frosted breeze
I’m dreaming of home
Lying here so cold and alone
Your faces warm my heart
I keep your letters inside my shirt
Away from rat-infested dirt
Your words are my balm
Protecting me from pain and harm
Your faces in my heart
If there is a God and He gives me another chance
I’d say let’s put aside our differences and dance
One day you’ll collect the bones, the tears, the blood
Preserved deep down in Flanders mud,
You will discover, we were all just brothers
Our pride and fear kept us here
Your faces in our hearts
If there is a God and He gives me another chance
I’d say let’s put aside our differences and dance
I'd say, lets put aside our differences and dance
No Man’s Land - men emerging, soldiers at ease
Burying our dead
Cognac - cigars
A football game
Our prayers are the same Oh yeh!
Laughter, friendship, voices singing
Gramophone playing in our fractured ears
Stille Nacht, Helige Nacht
I hear music sweet music
Not shell-shocked screams,
In my arms I’m holding the girl of my of my dreams
And in that no-war zone that exists between our hearts
I’d say
Let’s put aside our differences and dance dance dance dance dance
If we can be at peace for one Christmas day
Then why can’t it always be this way?
So let’s put aside our differences and dance.