From the recording Love In A Time Of War - 6 track mini-album
On D-Day, 6th June 1944, a group of young men from Bedford, Virginia, were among the first waves of Allied soldiers to land on Omaha Beach. By day’s end, nineteen of them would be dead. Four more died later in the Normandy campaign. Bedford's population in 1944 was about 3,200, so proportionally no other community in America lost as many sons as Bedford.
Lyrics
The Bedford Boys
Written by Con Meehan
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Hey hey mamma
Why you crying so?
We’ll look after each other
We fight a noble cause
We’re on our way to England
To fight a righteous war
And hey hey baby
I’ll write you every day
And I’ll be back before the snow
Has touched those Blue Ridge trees
I will make this promise
If you will just believe
The Bedford Boys
They’re walking out the door
The Bedford Boys
They’re marching off to war
And it’s once more
Onto the beach dear friends
One last prayer before we die
Ramps down, 6:33
We can only be a brave and strong
As youth can be
And hey hey brother
Won’t you stay with me awhile?
There’s something’s burning in my chest
My sight is growing dim
I’m cold and wet and I’m afraid
And what’s this Hell we’re in?
The Bedford Boys
Down on Omaha ‘44
The Bedford Boys
Won’t be coming home no more
And you can talk about Jesus
But the Bedford’s died for me
Nothing could have prepared them
For the dying and the grief
Some maybe saw it coming
On their Dog Green Calvary
Where they found the courage I don’t know
But they held, they took the pain
I just wish someone could have told them
That they did not fall in vain
And their blood seeded the future
And a way of life preserved
We repay when we remember them
And the others who have served
Just like the Bedford Boys
Down on Omaha ‘44
The Bedford Boys
They won’t be coming home no more
They don’t make ’em like that no more
They don’t make ‘em like that no more
They don’t make ’em like that no more no, no
They don’t make ‘em like that no more