Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 3, 2013 0:29:16 GMT 12
I quite like this little gem of a ditty, from:
Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 124, 22 November 1945, Page 6
"SING A SONG OF EUROPE."
During the first Great War the following lines were often quoted:—
Sing a song of Europe,
Highly civilised.
Four-and-twenty nations
Thoroughly hypnotised.
When the battles opened
The bullets began to sing,
Wasn't that a silly thing
To do for any King?
The Kings were in the background
Issuing commands,
The Queens were in the parlours
By etiquette's demands;
The bankers in the counting-house
Busy multiplying;
And all the rest were at the Front
Doing all the dying.
Author Unknown.
Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 124, 22 November 1945, Page 6
"SING A SONG OF EUROPE."
During the first Great War the following lines were often quoted:—
Sing a song of Europe,
Highly civilised.
Four-and-twenty nations
Thoroughly hypnotised.
When the battles opened
The bullets began to sing,
Wasn't that a silly thing
To do for any King?
The Kings were in the background
Issuing commands,
The Queens were in the parlours
By etiquette's demands;
The bankers in the counting-house
Busy multiplying;
And all the rest were at the Front
Doing all the dying.
Author Unknown.
