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Autumn 1914
A family is at risk
A conflagration of the nations
It will all be over by Christmas

Autumn 1914
What is there to come
A picture tells a story
Of what life could become

William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand
William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand

Little Bertie sits upon
Martha’s knee
He was born in May
Of 1914


The oldest boys are worried
They could be off to war
A fireman and a railwayman
They escape that call

William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand
William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand

Autumn 1914
It looks another age
Kitted out in Sunday best
Like something from the stage

The children all around,
The parents took the seats,
Sitting for a portrait,
They’d never repeat

William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand
William and Martha were farming the land
Four boys and four girls giving them a hand

Autumn 1914
My great grandfather’s clan,
The reason I’m alive
And I am who I am

My granddad he was twelve that year
And would soon go to work,
The truest farmer of them all,
Risen from the dirt

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from You Want to Know Something? (40 Years Series), released January 1, 2010
Words and music by Adrian Slatcher

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Bonbon Experiment Manchester, UK

Bonbon Experiment is the main musical project of Adrian Slatcher. He records for the online label BDM Recordings. 2022 is 40th anniversary of his music making - his 40 albums are being reissued with new artwork - and his 41st album, Acrobat Above the Sky is now available ... more

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