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The Red Berets
Author(s): George Hynd
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No one had told them it was their time to die
They came floating down gently one fine autumn day
These gallant young men with the Red Beret
For ten days they fought and no quarter they gave
And most ended up in a strange foreign grave
To the last man they held out they never would yield
Now they all lie together in a cemetry field
We come and we meet them once every year
Those young men who died for a thing we hold dear
They laid down thier young lives to help set Holland free
To preserve for mankind a thing thats called Liberty
At the service today there was a tear in my eye
As I thought of those young men who came out of the sky
And I choked back that tear when they started to pray
Lest we ever forget those who wore the Beret.
21.9.86 Dreyerood Hotel
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