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  • Billy Don't be a Hero

    who remembers Paper Lace & their hits Billy Don't be a Hero and The Night Chicago Died?


    The marching band came down along main street.
    The soldier blues fell in behind.
    I looked across and there I saw Billy
    Waiting to go and join the line.
    And with her head upon his shoulder

    His young and lovely fiancee.
    From where I stood I saw she was cryin'
    And through her tears I heard her say:

    Billy don't be a hero
    Don't be a fool with your life.
    Billy don't be a hero "Come back and make me your wife".
    And as Billy started to go she said "Keep your pretty head low"
    Billy don't be a hero "Come back to me".
    The soldier blues were trapped on a hillside.
    The battle ragin' all around.
    The sergeant cried "We've gotta hang on boys

    We gotta hold this piece of ground
    I need a volunteer to ride out
    And bring us back some extra men."
    And Billy's hand was up in a moment
    Forgetting all the words she said. She said:

    Billy don't be a hero
    Don't be a fool with your life
    I hard his fiancee got a letter
    That told how Billy died that day
    The letter said that he was a hero
    She should be proud he died that way
    I heard she threw the letter away.
    ---
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    written by CALLANDER, PETER / MURRAY, MITCH
    Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group



    Daddy was a cop
    on the East side of Chicago
    Back in the U-S-A
    Back in the bad old days

    In the heat of a summer night
    In the land of the dollar bill
    When the town of Chicago died
    How they talk about it still

    When a man named Al Capone
    Tried to make that town his own
    And he called his gang to war
    With the forces of the law

    CHORUS:

    I heard my mamma cry
    I heard her pray the night Chicago died
    Brother what a night it really was
    Brother what a fight it really was
    Glory be

    I heard my mamma cry
    I heard her pray the night Chicago died
    Brother what a night the people saw
    Brother what a fight the people saw
    Yes indeed

    And the sound of the battle rang
    Through the streets of the old East Side
    'Till the last of the hoodlum gang
    Had surrendered up or died

    There was shouting in the streets
    And the sound of running feet
    And I asked someone who said
    " 'Bout a hundred cops are dead"

    (Chorus)

    And there was no sound at all
    But the clock up on the wall
    Then the door burst open wide
    And my daddy stepped inside
    And he kissed my mamma's face
    And he brushed her tears away

    The night Chicago died
    The night Chicago died
    Brother what a night the people saw
    Brother what a fight the people saw
    Yes indeed

    The night Chicago died
    The night Chicago died
    Brother what a night it really was
    Brother what a fight it really was
    Glory be

    The night Chicago died
    The night Chicago died
    Brother what a night the people saw
    Brother what a fight the people saw
    Yes indeed
    ---
    Lyrics submitted by Bruce Solov
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    Do you really believe the other side without provocation would launch so many ICBM's, subs and ships knowing that we would have no option to launch as well? It would break our MAD Treaty (Mutually Assured Destruction) not to mention the end of the world as we know it.


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    Re: Billy Don't be a Hero

    Had too much Paper Lace....outr chargehand at work was Phil's ( the drummers ) dad....kept bringing them to the factory to meet everyone.

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