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Track: When The Roses Bloom Again
Artist: Billy Bragg
Album: Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

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Name: Billy Bragg
Spotify Genres: alt country, anti-folk, folk punk, singer-songwriter, americana
Followers: 189,034
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British singer-songwriter, born on December 20, 1957 in Barking, Essex. The 'Bard of Barking' has a long and successful career, particularly known in the UK for his combination of music and left-wing politics.

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Release: Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. III
Year: 2013
Genres: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Alternative Rock, Country Rock

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LYRICS

They were strolling in the gloaming
Where the roses were in bloom
A soldier and his sweetheart brave and true
And their hearts were filled with sorrow
For their thoughts were of tomorrow
As she pinned a rose upon his coat of blue

Do not ask me love to linger
When you know not what to say
For duty calls your sweetheart's name again
And your heart need not be sighing
If I be among the dying
I'll be with you when the roses bloom again

When the roses bloom again
Beside the river
And the mockingbird has sung his sweet refrain
In the days of auld lang syne
I'll be with you sweetheart mine
I'll be with you when the roses bloom again

Mid the rattle of the battle
Came a whisper soft and low
A soldier who had fallen in the fray
I am dying, I am dying
And I know I'll have to go
But I want to tell you
Before I pass away

There's a far and distant river
Where the roses are in bloom
A sweetheart who is waiting there for me
And it's there I pray you take me
I've been faithful, don't forsake me
I'll be with her when the roses bloom again