All The Fine Young Men

Eric Bogle


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They told all the fine young men, of when this war is over
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There will be peace, and the peace will last forever.
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In Flanders fields, at Lone Pine and Bersheeba, 
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For King and Country, Honor and Duty,
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The young men fought and cursed and wept and died.

They told all the fine young men, of when this war is over,
In your country’s grateful heart, we will cherish you forever
Tobruk and Alamein, at Singapore and Arnhem,
Like their fathers before, in a world mad with war,
The young men fought and cursed and wept and died.

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For many of those fine young men, all the wars are over,
They have found peace, it’s the peace that lasts forever.
When the call comes again, they will not answer.
They’re just forgotten bones, lying far from their homes,
As forgotten as the cause for which they died.

O young men, can you see now how they lied?