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Fairplay
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since 2007-01-15
Posts 222
England

0 posted 2007-10-02 01:54 PM


Don’t come “The Old Soldier” with me
There’s plenty would fit in your boots
Our job is the same to keep us all free
Most “Civies” they don’t give a hoot

Home in Blighty do you think they care
Where all is so calm and content
Fighting the battle with TV and Armchair
Or crying over the monies we spent

Our job is easy just follow the rules
We must try to protect and not kill
You have both weapon and shell dressing
Take two aspirins if you should feel ill

Think of your mother wife and the kid’s
The rest they can all go to hell
Get up and fight and we might have a chance
Or "By Heck" you will join them as well


Eric

[This message has been edited by Fairplay (10-02-2007 04:17 PM).]

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Kethry
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia
1 posted 2007-10-02 06:06 PM


This has good rhyme and metre... Nobody does it better than the English. I think it has something to do with the funny accents you all have.

a good commitee can decimate communication.

JL
Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
2 posted 2007-10-02 09:29 PM


"Home in Blighty do you think they care
Where all is so calm and content
Fighting the battle with TV and Armchair
Or crying over the monies we spent"


The very reason we do, and die if need be, so the complaining few can spit and spew.
How else would we know we've done a good job or not.  If they weren’t there doing as they do, they too would be dead, or worse serving their new masters.
Ea?

JL

Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor.
~Proverbs 22:9 NLT

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