They came home from the battle They came back after the war was won Back to all of their families After their duty done.
They came back as our heroes That is, all those who still remained The healthy or maimed In their eyes were framed The horror They’d been living through.
Oh Yes! they all had stories Stories that none could ever tell Of that carnage No pride or glory Horrific scenes, so ghastly No man should ever see.
They had survived there in the mud Among the corpses and all the blood There to face an enemy Just some other Mother’s sons Who’d been sent to fight that day On the other side of the fray
Now they are all Brothers in Arms Strewn across a battleground In some foreign land far away Where their bones still lie today Left for history to tell Have we learned the lesson well.
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Still, someone should explain Why so many died in vain Why they died so young Their duty done.
