The song 1917 is performed by Emmylou Harris in the album named Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems in the year 2007 .
The strange young man who comes to me
A soldier on a three day spree
Who needs one night's cheap ecstasy
And a woman's arms to hide him
He greets me with a courtly bow
And hides his pain by acting proud
He drinks too much and he laughs too loud
How can I deny him?
Let us dance beneath the moon
I'll sing to you, "Claire de Lune'
The morning always comes too soon
But tonight the war is over
He speaks to me in schoolboy French
Of a soldier's life inside a trench
Of the look of death and the ghastly stench
I do my best to please him
He puts two roses in a vase
Two roses sadly out of place
Like the gallant smile on his haggard face
Playfully I tease him
Hold me neath the Paris skies
Let's not talk of how or why
Tomorrow's soon enough to die
But tonight the war is over
We make love too hard too fast
He falls asleep his face a mask
He wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask
I put my arms around him
They die in the trenches and they die in the air
In Belguim and France the dead are everywhere
They die so so fast there's no time to prepare
A decent grave to surround them
Old world glory old world fame
The old worlds gone gone up in flames
Nothing will ever be the same
And nothing lasts forever
Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how
And there's nothing, nothing that can save him now
But there's always another with the same funny bow
And who am I to deny them
Lux aeterna, Luce-at e-is
Domine cum sanctic tu-is in aeternum
Qui-a pius es
Requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine
Qui-a pius es
Tonight the war is over
Requiem aeternaum dona e-is Domine
Qui-a pius es
Et lux perpetua luce-at- e-is Cum sancris tu-is in
Aeternum qui-api-us es
Tonight the war is over
Emmylou Harris - Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
- Clocks (alternate version)
- The Angels Rejoiced Last Night (Gram Parsons)
- The Old Country Baptizing (Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels)
- Coats of Many Colors
- For No One
- Ooh Las Vegas
- Satan's Jewel Crown
- Tulsa Queen
- My Songbird
- Green Rolling Hills
- One Paper Kid with Willie Nelson
- Sorrow In The Wind
- Rough And Rocky
- Jordan
- Darkets Hour Is Just Before Dawn
- Ashes by Now
- How High The Moon
- Spanish Johnny with Waylon Jennings
- The Lst Cheaters Waltz
- Racing In The Streets
- Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
- The Sweethearts of the Rodeo with Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill & Gail Davies
- When I Was Yours
- My Fathers House
- Bright Morning Stars
- When He Calls
- Lonely Street
- Brand New Dance
- Get Up John
- If I Could Be There
- Ballad Of A Runaway House
- Going Back To Harlan
- Sweet Old World
- All My Tears (Live)
- Prayer In Open D (Live)
- Bang The Drum Slowly
- Boy From Tupelo
- Lost Unto This World
- Man Is An Island
- Cup Of Kindness
- Falling In a Deep Hole
- 1917 (Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
- Palms of Victory (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, & Emmylou Harris)
- Softy and Tenderly (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
- My Dear Companion (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstatt & Emmylou Harris)
- Mary Danced with Soldiers (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
- I Don't ove You Much Do I (Guy Clark)
- All I Left Behind
- I Remember You (Steve Earle)
- Golden Ring with Linda Ronstadt and Anna & Kate McGarrigle
- Sonny (Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keanes, Mary Black)
- In The Garden
- Love Still Remains
- Snake Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Wondering
- Immigrant Eyes
- Juanita (Sheryl Crow & Emmylow Harris)
- She (Pretenders & Emmylou Harris)
- Sin City (Beck & Emmylou Harris)
- Wheels (The Seldom Scene)
- Beyond The Blue (Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin)
- First In Line (Emmylou Harris & John Starling)
- Highway of Heartache
- ALone And Forsaken (Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler)
- Child of Mine
- Heaven Ain't Ready For You Yet
- Wish We Were Back In Missouri
- Mama's Hungry Eyes with Rodney Crowell
- Here We Are (George Jones & Emmylou Harris)
- Waltz Across Texas Tonight
- Snowin' On Raton
- Gone
- Don't Let Our Love Die
- The Pearl (Live)
- Wildwood Flower (Randy Scruggs with Emmylou Harris & Iris DeMent)
- Love And Happiness (Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris)
- When We're Gone, Long Gone