Maria Elena (I'm Going to War) - Gene Pitney

There’s a cottage, In the village

In the country, I have learned to love

And every night the curfew rings

And people sing their prayers to heaven above

In the cottage there lives a girl

Who crying for she can see

Soldiers marching away to war

They’re fighting, to be free

Maria Elena, I’m going away to war

I’m going to fight I may not to back again

Maria Elena, I love you forever more

Please say it’s alright you’ll stay by my side til dawn

(Instrumental)

I remember moonlit nights

And dancing in the streets til break of day

Yes I remember how it was

No-one would seperate us come what may

Like a dream it desolves away

And morning will soon be here

Revolution has come our way

I’m warning, you now dear

(Repeat twice)

Maria Elena, I’m going away to war

I’m going to fight I may not to back again

Maria Elena, I love you forever more

Please say it’s alright you’ll stay by my side til dawn