"George Whites children" genre: Folk
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	I wrote this song about a family I met where the grandfather was a WW2 hero who returned and decimated his children and grandchildren. It's not pretty but it made me the overall winner of the South Australian CM Festival in 1998 and started me recording.
	CD: Good ways to break the drought   Label: Golddigger Music Credits: ©DGray 1998
	Story Behind the Song The effects of child abuse last through many generations and people react in ways that are often explained by history if a family is open and honest about their past. Australia probably owes war compensation to George Whites children and greatgrandchildren. He wasn't debriefed and although he destroyed his family he was a great soldier. Lyrics George Whites children © D.Gray 1998 Private George White came back from the war but our eyes were all close and nobody saw except the grandchildren from behind a closed door just like their parents before them his children were singers dancers and such but the life that was theirs melted under his touch and its other men now that bear the hate Private George White used to create sing me a reason, sing me a rhyme tell me why these things must be maybe the people, perhaps the time I only know I want kids to grow up to be free they say that he died in 65' well I know that he left at least four shattered lives he's under the earth and now resting well while his family continue in their living hell for all of George Whites children have grown they're older now with kids of their own and the great-grand children are running from home just like their parents before them sing me a reason, sing me a rhyme tell me why these things must be maybe the people, perhaps the time I only know I want kids to grow up to be free Noone can tell how George White died none of his family were there by his side for he taught them to run and he taught them to hide and George was a very good teacher now it's just a story but the meaning is clear if you've got loved ones and you want them near teach them to love don't teach them to fear just like their parents before them sing me a reason, sing me a rhyme tell me why these things must be maybe the people, perhaps the time I only know I want kids to grow up to be free Private George White came back from the war now what kind of freedom was he fighting for?

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