Verso:
B5              C#5
Captured clandestine
F#5               C#5
Crawled into the lights
D5         A5              G5
He knew he was in for a shoeing
E5                  F#5
Just wasn't to be his night

B5                      C#5
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine
F#5                            C#5
For the Motherland and the Third Reich
D5         A5                G5
A toeing's as good as a shoeing
E5                  F#5
When it's not to be your night

Refr?o:
B5
Tread carefully, so carefully
Bb5
Upon the drifting ice
Eb5
Caught behind enemy lines
F5    F#5
In 1939

B5          Bb5
For Germany he sacrificed his life
Eb5
Caught behind enemy lines
F5      F#5
There in 1939

Verso:
B5                   C#5
Kids knee-deep in rubble
F#5                     C#5
London urchins grey with dust
D5        A5                 G5
Packed off ours in evacuations
E5
To farmers' wives

Green and pleasant lives
F#5
Far from the doodlebugs
B5                          C#5
Nanna Doll she still remembers
F#5                    C#5
Leaving town in worn-out shoes
D5              A5                   G5
Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations
E5                           F#5
Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues

Verso:
B5
Tread carefully, so carefully
Bb5
Upon the drifting ice
Eb5
Staring blank into the TV guide
F5     F#5
In 2009

B5                   Bb5
How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice
Eb5
Since you went west for the second time
F5        F#5
Since 1939