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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521263" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oh What A Lovely War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh What A Lovely War<br>The sins of granddad brought me to war<br>for England has dined on this before.<br>The arrogance of dad who brags my shoes<br>for in his eyes I am England blue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The teacher who bellows you do us proud<br>a vindictive sod who ruled my class<br>The preacher who seeks my confession<br>who drinks the blood of Christ in whiskey heaven? <br>But never mind for god is always right</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trough of greed will grunt with pride<br> the bombs will fall killing the dreams below.<br>These fat cats of war all feasting on me<br>Oh what a lovely war, everybody in work<br>More champagne for them<br>and the grapes of wrath for me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain of mother's tears<br>will wash my soul<br>The marbles of play are gone, <br>No chance for love to warm my nights.<br>Only frost and the company of rats<br>gnawing on the bed of my insanity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No youth will smile with me tonight, <br>no innocence can protect me here.<br> The voice of death whispers my darkest hour<br>for this heart will soon be cold<br>and you who sleep in beds tonight<br> will never know the truth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The forces of ambition have gathered to see, <br>this place where youth will die.<br>Charlie Chaplin give us one last laugh<br>for the guns are straining on their leashes.<br>The generals have given their salute<br>and murder is about to bleed on countries lips<br>for this is a glorious war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in motherland they shall sing my praise, <br>hero is what I am, <br>But I still have a voice for one more night<br>though your ears will be deaf to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Liars you are to the last, <br>So dam the lot of you.<br>For pain and fear is all I know, <br>the bragging rights will spill your beer<br>for Life was never mine to enjoy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lamb and beast all share my fate<br>though they will die in peace.<br>For their bodies serve a natures law<br>While my carcass will rot in Flanders land</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of sight of country<br> for another will take my place.<br>I am an inmate of war<br>my letters the only sign of freedom<br>and my photograph a reminder to those, <br>who should have protected me? <br>A youth of another's man war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me who gave the invisible a lucrative life? <br>Who served an empty command<br>watched over by mother's tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My absolution will forgive their sins.<br>You see I am a peaceful lad<br>all I possess are the marbles of childhood<br>and the mercy that god gave me.<br>I am every mother's boy<br>And every mother is proud of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in death I will not enter Heaven's gate<br>For I will wait for them.<br>Wait for the hand that brought me here<br>for I need to know the reason why? <br>Was this Flanders field worth the sacrifice of me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as this multitude of youth<br>marches into the arms of angels pity, <br>will god be blind to their confession? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we remember that Charlie Chaplin made us laugh<br>We remember our mother's tears<br>But most of all we will remember the buggers<br>Who brought us here, to die in Flanders land?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Cooke">Steven Cooke</a><div class=q>
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The sins of granddad brought me to war
for England has dined on this before.
The arrogance of dad who brags my shoes
for in his eyes I am England blue

The teacher who bellows you do us proud
a vindictive sod who ruled my clas..."></div>
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