Another great YouTube find . . . . . I was thinking of Bobby on Sunday, the poetry of Sassoon and MaCrae and all the great war poets, so called and all and how they are all mostly anti-war. I am not, as many know, a religious man and this has always struck me as a song with its questioning tone and either it enables you to question your versions of Christianity or introduces you to the futility of war where through a mere accident of birth what belief system you may wind up following. . . . .
still here's the rehearsal tapes of Bobby doing 'With God On Our Side' again for a ll the fallen soldiers in the futility of war . . . . why and what's the reason for . . . . . .
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
- John McCrae
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