THEIR DUTY DONE

 

They came home from the battle

They came back after the war was won

Back to all of their families

After their duty done.

 

They came back as our heroes

That is, all those who still remained

The healthy or maimed

In their eyes were framed

The horror

They’d been living through.

 

Oh Yes! they all had stories

Stories that none could ever tell 

Of that carnage

No pride or glory

Horrific scenes, so ghastly

No man should ever see.

 

They had survived there in the mud

Among the corpses and all the blood

There to face an enemy

Just some other Mother’s sons

Who’d been sent to fight that day

On the other side of the fray

 

Now they are all Brothers in Arms

Strewn across a battleground

In some foreign land far away

Where their bones still lie today

Left for history to tell

Have we learned the lesson well.

 

(Short instrumental break)

  

Still someone should explain

Why so many died in vain

Why they died so young

…. Their duty done.

 
Rodd Sherwin

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