Throw your soldiers into positions
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Once there is no escape
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And they will prefer death to flight
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Hear the sound of the machine gun
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Hear it echo in the night
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Mortars firing, rains the scene
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Scars the fields that once were green
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It’s a stalemate at the front line
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Where the soldiers rest in mud
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Roads and houses, all is gone
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There’s no glory to be won
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Know that many men will suffer
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Know that many men will die
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Half a million lives at stake
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Ask the fields of Passchendaele
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And as night falls the general calls
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And the battle carries on and on
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What is the purpose of it all?
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What’s the price of a mile?
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Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army on the march
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Long way from home
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Paying the price in young mens lives
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Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army in despair
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Knee-deep in mud
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Stuck in the trench with no way out
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Thousands of machine guns
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Kept on firing through the night
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Mortars placed and wreck the scene
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Guns the fields that once were green
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Still a deadlock at the front line
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Where the soldiers die in mud
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Roads and houses since long gone
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Still no glory has been won
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Know that many men has suffered
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Know that many men has died
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Six miles of ground has been won
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Half a million men are gone
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And as the men crawled the general called
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And the killing carried on and on
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What was the purpose of it all?
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What’s the price of a mile?
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Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army on the march
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Long way from home
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Paying the price in young mens lives
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Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army in despair
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Knee-deep in mud
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Stuck in the trench with no way out
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Young men are dying
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They pay the price
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Oh how they suffer
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So tell me, what’s the price of a mile?
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That’s the price of a mile!
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Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army on the march
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Long way from home
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Paying the price in young mens lives
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army in despair
|
Knee-deep in mud
|
Stuck in the trench with no way out
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army on the march
|
Long way from home
|
Paying the price in young mens lives
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army in despair
|
Knee-deep in mud
|
Stuck in the trench with no way out
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army on the march
|
Long way from home
|
Paying the price in young mens lives
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army in despair
|
Knee-deep in mud
|
Stuck in the trench with no way out
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army on the march
|
Long way from home
|
Paying the price in young mens lives
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
|
It’s an army in despair
|
Knee-deep in mud
|
Stuck in the trench with no way out
|
Thousands of feet march to the beat
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It’s an army on the march
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Long way from home
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Paying the price in young mens lives |