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[aid] => Mick
[title] => What was the whole thing for?
[time] => 2003-09-21 06:35:00
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[bodytext] => When the war had started it seemed just so much fun We got to the recruiting office we’d go and fight the Hun It’ll all be done by Christmas back home again with kin There was never any doubting which one of us would win So we whistled Tipperary with our kit bags on our backs There was Tom and me and Harry Billy Fred and Jack We crossed the English Channel and marched towards the guns We were the bravest of the brave we’d show those flipping Huns They put us in the trenches with shelling all day long Each man was battered senseless now who knew right from wrong With rats and gas and trench foot and mud in everything We stood and took the very best the cursed Bosh could fling We’d gain as much as 50 yards then lose 100 more The fighting see sawed back and forth but no one knew what for In no mans land the maxims ruled my comrades fell all round Their ripped and shattered bodies lay thick upon the ground The eyes went blank and staring the mind and spirit died No longer shocked by seeing that even grown men cried No more Tom and Harry Fred and Jack dead too And Billy he deserted he couldn’t see it through Shot at dawn by Englishmen his own side took his life We tried and found him guilty they wrote and told his wife My left arm now is missing my lungs are seared by gas No longer fit for fighting no need for you alas Just one more push they told us just one more push would do Then the fighting would be finished the world would start anew But they lied to all the fighting men they lied to win a war But when all is said and done what was the whole thing for? [comments] => 0 [counter] => 145 [topic] => 43 [informant] => drunken_ghost [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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