It was just a little walk/In the warm Italian sun/But it wasn’t an easy thing/And poets are writing the tale of that fight/And songs for children to sing/Let them sing of the men of a fighting platoon/Let them sing of the job they’ve done/How they came across the sea/To sunny Italy/And took a little walk in the sun/Well the road that they walked was a mighty long road/ Stretching round the World from Peking to Rome/It’s the same road they had/Coming out of Stalingrad/It’s that old Lincoln Highway back home/It’s wherever men fight to be free/Wherever men fight to be free
From the film “A Walk In The Sun” (1945). Music, Earl Robinson; lyrics, Millard Lampell.
