<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477074" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Soldiers Tale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scum of the earth you called us<br>In your fancy boots and clothes, <br>But it was us who faced the guns<br>And on your orders died<br>For a shilling in our pocket<br>And a flogging on our back.<br>Us Tommies, English, Scots and Welsh<br>Aye, and Irish too, us lions of the Isles<br>We stood and fought around the world<br>And saw how big it was<br>And when we were finished<br>A quarter of it was ours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a way to live and die<br>For us poor boys in red<br>But we took our shilling<br>And our floggings too, <br>And when you sent us off to war<br>We fought and mostly won.<br>When we stood in that thin red line<br>We showed them how to fight, <br>Then supped and tupped<br>In every place we went.<br>Yet all the time you treated us<br>Like shite beneath your feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we saw through you toffs<br>With your boots and fancy accents, <br>Your polished schoolboy airs.<br>Us Tommies, us lions, <br>We'd seen it all before.<br>When the cannon and the muskets roared<br>It was us who stood and faced them<br>And on your orders died.<br>But when the guns fell silent<br>And our blood soaked the earth<br>It was you who got the medals<br>And us who paid the price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Anthony">Paul Anthony</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477074" data-title="A Soldiers Tale de Paul Anthony" data-description="The scum of the earth you called us In your fancy boots and clothes, But it was us who faced the guns And on your orders died For a shilling in our pocket And a flogging on our back. Us Tommies, English, Scots and Welsh Aye, and Irish too, us lio..."></div> </div> </div>

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