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Music: Enya & Nicky Ryan
Lyrics: Roma Ryan
& Arranged by Enya & Nicky Ryan
 Evacuee
Each time on my leaving home
I run back to my mother's arms,
one last hold and then it's over.

Watching me, you know I cry,
you wave a kiss to say goodbye,
Feel the sky fall down upon me!

All I am,
a child with promises
All I have,
are miles full of promises of home.

If only I could stay with you,
my train moves on,
you're gone from view,
Now I must wait until it's over.

Days will pass, your words to me,
it seems so long; eternity,
but I must wait until it's over.





Roma Ryan's notes to the song, taken from Only Time-The Collection::
War carries with it inevitable sadness. This is the song of the grief of a child evacuee, of the separation of the child from mother and father. Unfortunately it is not a song that belongs only to the past.

Roma Ryan's notes to the song, taken from Shepherd Moons sheet music book:
I remember her face. She told of how she had been an evacuee during the Second World War. As she told her story she began to cry like the girl she had been half a century ago. The pain of her separation from her parents registered with immediacy on her face. As a child she could not understand why she had to leave them, and the effect of this had stayed with her. The only hope she had as a child was a promise that they would all be together again.



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