DISPUTIN' with PUTIN
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WARFARE GUMBO in a large brass pot
Carve it up!
.....Stir it slow
...........serve it hot!
Russki scalawags sleepin' on a cot
....Hear em' rip
........Let em' snore
............Let em' rot!
Sips from a cider jug: four and ninety-six
Drips from a leaky tent (out in the Styx)
Hoist up yer banners
watch yer manners - stay alert
"Yes Sir and No Sir" or you're in a heap o' hurt
Death comes knockin' and she won't be chased away
Till the end
......when it counts
............on That day
Drum some thunder as you march in men!
Rat-a-tat
.....rat-a-tat
..........rat-a-tat
Eyes wide wonder let the fights begin!
Make ‘em pay
.....make ‘em bleed
..............All their kin.
Listen for a trumpet blast,
they'll come fast!
We'll keep a fightin' till the final wretched gasp
Cries and a wailin'
From the Widows for their men
As we watch laughing at the beauty of our Sin.
--War is Hell--
Stagger with the crippled
and blink with the blind
--War is Hell--
Battle with a bottle take a final sip of wine
--War is Hell--
Martyr lies moulderin' beneath a funeral wreath
Where there's
Weeping and
Wailing and
Gnashing of teeth . . .
There is a story
every dead man we must tell:
We must tell:
War is Hell
War is Hell
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Terry Walstrom poem