<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577565" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Soldier Of The Town</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is in his mid eighties his balding head is gray<br>And it surely can be said of him that he has known a better day<br>But he is a true battler cannot keep a tough one down<br>And he will not die easily the old soldier of the Town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A decorated soldier many stories of him told<br>The war medals he won in World war 2 for the price of a pack of beer he sold<br>He still drinks heaps of alcohol he is a tough old boy<br>And tis not from eating healthy food that a long life he enjoy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not one to keep his silence when drunk you hear him swear<br>And what others say about him he doesn't seem to care<br>Back in the early nineteen forties few were as brave as he<br>In the fierce heat of the battle he proved his bravery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An old soldier of the Town he has lived it the hard way<br>And it does not seem to bother him what others of him say<br>Down at the pub on saturday he does enjoy his beer<br>Though nothing about World war 2 from him you ever hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577565" data-title="The Old Soldier Of The Town de Francis Duggan" data-description="He is in his mid eighties his balding head is gray And it surely can be said of him that he has known a better day But he is a true battler cannot keep a tough one down And he will not die easily the old soldier of the Town. A decorated soldier m..."></div> </div> </div>

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