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Tombola

by Jason McNiff

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Written for Italian folk rock band, Modena City Ramblers, for an album called 'La Battaglione Alleato' - a celebration of an incredibly daring world war 2 Mission at Albinea, in Northern Italy, spring, 1944.

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Norice smiled me a smile had nothing to do with war.
With her skirt above her knees And her bare feet on the floor
But I can’t think about it because tonight we finally go
From the safety of the mountains to the enemy below
Tonight we really go…
We’ve been planning up here for 3 months maybe more
I got Russians and Italians and British about a score… we’re a hundred men
An order came from Florence I’ll pretend I didn’t get
Said hold off your attack – we’re not ready for it yet
But we cant wait no more…
From ’who dares wins’ to ‘who cares who wins!’ That’s the song we sing…
O Norice with your smile and your deep Italian eyes please forgive my sins

So in the misty night with a hundred men behind all creeping Single file Mile after mile shadows in the night…
Yeah thru the night’s mist with guns clenched in our fist
In to the lion’s den me and my 100 men every sound’s a din
Once I heard a dog bark he must’ve us something in the dark
But it wasn’t our fate to be discovered that way
No one came outside…
At night you fear your dreams like the rustling of the trees
But when the dawn sings it is courage that it brings and now we can see…
Albinea from the hill in the still still still not a breath of wind
Norice with your smile and your deep Italian eyes
Please forgive my sins

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released May 14, 2013

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Jason McNiff London, UK

JASON MCNIFF is a British troubadour who has made eight albums in the Folk, or Americana, or Alt. Country genres. There is an Englishness in his guitar playing however, and you might like to think of Bert Jansch or Wizz Jones meeting John Prine & Townes Van Zandt. His new album is a collection of cover versions called 'Tonight We Ride' ... more

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