Soldier Boy Soldier Boy

Nineteen fourteen unrest in the Balkans

Archduke Ferdinand assassinated

soldier boy soldier boy

nineteen fourteen many a nation retaliated

Dire straits

brothers in arms

soldier boy soldier boy

called to bear arms

Nineteen fifteen pa rum pa pum pum 

a boy and his drum

do they know it's Christmas? 
oh what's the use

soldier boy soldier boy

don't despair remember the Christmas day truce

Hemmed in in the trenches

muddied and soiled

soldier boy soldier boy

oh how you toiled

Nineteen sixteen battle of the Somme

swords, gunpowder, stones

soldier boy soldier boy 

will you ever go home?

Not a birdsong in the fields

they've taken flight

soldier boy soldier boy

they flew off in the night

Nineteen seventeen one of the four riders

enthroned upon galloping war horse 

soldier boy soldier boy

oh what a force

Nineteen eighteen 

laid to rest in an unmarked grave

though they say you didn't die in vain

soldier boy soldier boy

you don't have a name

And now the year of now 

red poppies of Flanders

red poppy pick a petal off

soldier boy soldier boy

forget you forget you not

 Poem written by Sarah Jane Mark 2012  ©