99 YEARS SINCE THE SOMME song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

it's been 99 years since the Somme
99 years since the Somme
99 years since the dumbest of wars
99 years since the Somme

on the first day they killed twenty thousand
of the best boys who ever were pals
the first day they killed twenty thousand
without logic without rationales

it began on the first of July
and it ended the mid of November
in a war that was nothing but lies
and for reasons no one could remember

the boys ran head first to the front
in the path of machine guns and fire
through the craters and they took the brunt
and lay rotting beneath the barbed wires

while field marshals slept in chateaus
safe and warm in their royal abodes
dozens of miles from the trenches
as the Tommies lay cold and drenched

so for just a few acres of land
and for just a few songs to be sung
hundreds of thousands were damned
by generals who should have been hung

it's been 99 years since the Somme
99 years since the Somme
99 years since the dumbest of wars
99 years since the Somme

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