Roger Waters
When The Tigers Broke Free (Part 2) (1982 Recording)
[Intro: Welsh Male Voice Choir]
[Verse 1: Roger Waters]
And kind old King George sent Mother a note
When he heard that Father was gone
It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll
With gold leaf and all
[Verse 2: Roger Waters]
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp
[Verse 3: Roger Waters]
It was dark all around, there was frost in the ground
When the Tigers broke free
And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company Z
They were all left behind
Most of them dead, thе rest of them dying (dying,)
And that's how the High Command took my daddy from mе