Lost Battalion's

from 2011..enjoy,check out my other songs and please share...
LOST BATTALION'S..
Sent as a boy to fight in an alien land
with a new uniform and a shake of the hand
when duty called they queued to comply
to fight with their comrades and never ask why

Home was a trench just a few feet deep
as millions of shell's rained down at their feet
the walls of cold mud they towered so steep
a hole in the ground their fate it did keep
the stench of the gas hung so thick in the air
whilst the generals in Britain they seemed not to care
sent "over the top" and told not to run
tens of thousands were slaughtered by enemy guns
CHORUS....
And the shell holes they became graves
scattered throughout no mans land
so many innocent tortured young souls
broke down and threw in their hand.
They would line them all up and shoot them at dawn
their stiff upper lip bitten tight
their families had pleaded please stay here at home
but for freedom they had chosen to fight.

hour after hour and night after night
shadows they painted such nightmarish sights
flame thrower victims mutilated and black
body parts hung on a barbed wire rack
hell had brought down its curtain of fire
deaths final act to the men on the wire
trapped in the wasteland they prayed for an end
their hands raised skyward for father or friend.

CHORUS........

LAST VERSE........
From July to November one million fell
in a place called the Somme, the worst kind of hell.
The madness , the trenches , the gas , the barbed wire.
under constant bombardment of incendiary fire
Thousands are missing no grave of their own
a memorial in Thiepval stands miles from their home
their footsteps fell silent just echoes in time
their futures were stolen the ultimate crime.

CHORUS X 2