- Refrain:
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Oh! we don’t want to lose you but we think you ought to go
For your King and Country both need you so;
We shall want you and miss you but with all our might and main
We shall cheer you, thank you, kiss (bless) you When you come back again.
Holdings which refer to this music
- Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 (book) • "Oh, we don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go ..." used as epigraph to "Happy is England Now" section
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