A Week On The LineWe took the dead man in sheets back down the lines The moan of the damn mortars still loud in our ears It wasn’t the snipers or the machine guns or even the artillery It was his own gun that silenced his tearsA Week On The Line
He shouldn’t have been there we could all agree We shouldn’t have been there either I believed No one could fight in that blasted mud filled trench But those were the orders we received
After the first two days while the artillery pounded us He cracked and cried until someone knocked him out Our own fresh faced platoon officer lay in the mud W
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