We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Wartime Sweetheart

from Heresy and Hearsay by James Bar Bowen

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 3 James Bar Bowen releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Lie of the Land, Heresy and Hearsay, and Are you thinking what I'm thinking?. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £17.60 GBP or more (20% OFF)

     

about

Written and arranged by James Bar Bowen

lyrics

Wartime Sweetheart (2010)
For many months we've observed uneasy ceasefires
Hidden snipers always shoot on sight
Diplomatic moves get buried in the rubble
But I'll seek solace in your arms tonight

Behind the lines, parachuted down in secret
On a hush-hush mission, furtive, undercover
Unilateral peace declared on warring factions
By you, my wartime sweetheart, my wartime lover

Chorus
Kiss me, my wartime sweetheart
Love me two times and then we part
Fill my lungs, my souls and all my senses
But most of all bring peace to my troubled heart

Enigma codes say we're fighting here for freedom
Ration books, wailing sirens, fight and flight
Battle-scarred and shell-shocked in the shelter
It's time to build up trust, no time to fight

Now's the time to cross forbidden borders
It's time to speak plain words tonight
No codes, no passwords, no more disguises
Sweetheart, lie in my arms tonight

credits

from Heresy and Hearsay, released June 5, 2013
James Bar Bowen played guitar and sang.
Roddy Johnston played violin.
Sam Bell played accordion.
Jonny Purkis played drums.
Jacqueline Rose sang backing vocals.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

James Bar Bowen image

James Bar Bowen Huddersfield, UK

Acoustic folk punk singer-songwriter with attitude. Award-winning songs to make you laugh, cry and rage.
Original, unusual, controversial, political, heart-felt, tear-jerking, angry, inspired, humorous, iconoclastic, sentimental, anti-fascist, engaging, intelligent ... more

contact / help

Contact James Bar Bowen

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like James Bar Bowen, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now