#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: 11/19/97; 10:37:27 PM From: Nevrdiyung@aol.com Subject: here ya go gregg new song from garth brooks belleau wood 1917 (Garth Brooks) upcoming album 'sevens' note: this has become my favorite song now! Also I don't know if the words are all right, so please feel to correct ~ transcribed by nevrdiyung@aol.comoh the snow flakes fell in scilence, over belleau wood that night for a christmas goose had been prepared, on both sides of the line as we laid there in our trenches, the scilence broke into by a german soldier singing, a song that we all knew though I did not know the language, the song was silent night then I heard my buddy whisper, all is calm all is bright then then fear in I srounded me, as I died if I was wrong but I stood up in my tench, and I began to sing along then across the frozen battlefield anothers voice joined in until one by one each man became a singer of the hymn then I thought I was green, for right there in my side stood the german soldier, who had a fallen face of white and he raised his hand and smiled at me, as if seemed to say he was hopeing that we would both live to see, find a better way then the devils clock struck midnight, and the skies lit up again and the battlefield where heaven stood, is blowin up again but for just one fleeting moment, the answer seemed so clear heavens not beyond the clouds, its just beyond the field no heavens not beyond the clouds, it for us to find here