Name: Folded Flag
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Channel: Klaus Caprani
Description: "Folded Flag" is a song by Klaus Caprani. A song about having a friend home from the war.

Folded Flag

Klaus Caprani

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A song about having a friend home from the war.

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Klaus Caprani

Klaus Caprani is an independent songwriter and musician. Mainly bassist, but plays various guitars such as slide and pedal-steel as well.

Klaus Caprani is a professional bass player, fretted and fretles, live and in the studio! Furthermore he writes and produces own material across different genres. See more at: http://www.klauscaprani.com/biosuk.htm

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Folk Rock

Charts

#13,278 today Peak #480

#724 in subgenre Peak #36

Author

Klaus Caprani

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Klaus Caprani

Uploaded

October 26, 2009

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MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44

Story behind the song

I wrote this song as I was booked to play at the 2009 peace-festival in Copenhagen. I didn't really have any "peace" or "protest" songs, so this was my first shot (no pun intended ;-) at something like that.

Lyrics

FOLDED FLAG
(Klaus Caprani)

So the wara019s part of history now
and I see you again
As the coffin emerges through the cargo-bay hatch
of the giant C5 transport plane

I remember the note that you wrote
as the battlefield called
How youa019d fight for democracy, freedom of speech
I bet it was not like you thought

Now your Dad gets this medal
You posthumously earned
And your sad little Sister and grieving old Mom
gets a nice folded flag in return

The suna019s setting behind the chapel
the lighta019s fading fast
Birds are singing sad songs in the forrest of headstones
Of warriours lost in the past

Now your comrades are forming a line
of faces of stone
In their eyes therea019s an absence of something I remember was there
when they all were still home

Now your Dad gets this medal
You posthumously earned
And your sad little Sister and grieving old Mom
gets a nice folded flag in return

There are causes that you can not join
without coming to harm
Was it worth all this pain and this fiery and final salute
from your brothers in arms?

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