Angel of Mons
Saul Blease| Original | 2018 |
| ANGEL OF MONS They say it’ll be over soon home by Christmas day Standing here in a muddy trench is that really what they say? They said it’d be over soon that we’d be home by Christmas day Dying here in a gas-filled trench is that really what they say? Does an angel float above us? Can’t see through the shot and shell As the world tears up around us Why would an angel visit Hell? | ANGEL OF MONS We the Old Contemptible few drinking char then we stand to Digging in behind the bags Trenches stretch across the land In Flanders mud we stand In the pink behind the bags Hunkered down behind the wire bumped by Hun artillery fire In a funk behind the bags From the posts barb wire’s strung no-mans land the bodies hung Just the dead behind the bags Sunset on the western front once more the evening hate A thousand guns now taunt us there’s no escape from our fate Direct hit, no body remains just fragments of bone an’ skin Brass hats will be sending out telegram for the next of kin Does an angel float above us? Can’t see through the shot and shell As the world tears up around us Why would an angel visit Hell? Does an angel float above us? (above us) Can’t see through the shot and shell As the world tears up around us (around us) Why would an angel visit Hell? Hear the hoots early morning Bob-man calls out the warning Floundering in a green sea fumble my mask to save me Someone yelling, going down on dry land begins to drown Spewing cud gasping breath another here is touched by death They said to die for England here is something sweet and right Watching Tommy spew his guts out no, dying’s not a glorious sight Does an angel float above us? (above us) Can’t see through the shot and shell As the world tears up around us (around us) Why would an angel visit Hell? Does an angel float above us? (above us) Can’t see through the shot and shell As the world tears up around us (around us) Why would an angel visit Hell? |
