Name: Women of War
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: This track was inspired by the Anzac commemorations that occur every year during April in Australia; the movies, stories, events based around the diggers who fought in the wars. My intention was to highlight the Women of War, the ones left behind to hold 'the fort', work in the munitions factories and on the land etc. The ones who had to evacuate their kids far away from

Women of War

by Dawn Barrington

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This track was inspired by the Anzac commemorations that occur every year during April in Australia; the movies, stories, events based around the diggers who fought in the wars. My intention was to highlight the Women of War, the ones left behind to hold 'the fort', work in the munitions factories and on the land etc. The ones who had to evacuate their kids far away from

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CHORUS
Women of war Women of war

VERSE 1
Every year on that April date
We spend time to commemorate
The men who fought the wretched war
One more movie and one more score
To-tell-the-stories-of how it was before
And try-to-explain a reason or a cause

VERSE 2
Where was she in all this malaise
What was her story what price did she pay
How much hardship stole her heart?
How much time spent falling apart
Under the clouds of smoke filled skies
At the factory lines of broken lives

CHORUS
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war Women of war

BRIDGE
That’s the story that goes round in my head
That’s the story that goes round in my head
Tragic in nature and filled with dread STOP

VERSE 3
No pictures, no footage of all those lost souls
Just distant memories and stories untold
Attached to every digger was a mother and wife
And kids waiting for an end to this strife
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war whatever happened to them all
Women of war Women of war Women of war

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released February 18, 2015
Recorded and mixed by Toby Flockart Walker
Mastered by Alan Smith at Bergerk! Studio Mt Helena, WA
Instrumentation and backing vocals by Tony King
Recorded at the GSIT Dungeon, Denmark WA

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Dawn Barrington Fremantle, Australia

Dawn is a singer/songwriter based in Fremantle, Western Australia. She is a traditional storyteller at heart and her catchy choruses and rich lyrical content make for an engaging performance. Her distinctive sound and the spirit in which she sings her songs is refreshing and emotive. ... more

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