The Chances

I mind as how the night before that show
Us five got talkin’; we was in the know.
‘Ah well,’ says Jimmy,–and he’s seen some scrappin’,
‘There ain’t no more nor five things …

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War

There’s a soul in the Eternal,
Standing stiff before the King.
There’s a little English maiden
Sorrowing.
There’s a proud and tearless woman,
Seeing pictures in the fire.
There’s a broken battered body
On the wire.
By: Woodbine …

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War is Kind

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind,
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Hoarse, booming drums of the …

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War Of Our World

I can’t believe this has happened, I can’t believe this is true,
So many families’s torn apart, so many life’s destroyed,
So much violence, too much pain,
So much hatred, but who do …

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When I’m Killed

When I’m killed, don’t think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
And there’s one thing that I know well,
I’m damned if I’ll …

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When There is Peace

“When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore.”
Thus do our facile seers foretell
The truth that none can buy or see
And e’en the wisest …

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