WHETHER THEY MAY WIN OR LOSE

 

Whether they may win or lose

Or whether they think its right

Our soldiers don’t get to choose

Which wars that they fight

FIGHTING TALK

 

“You’re fighting for a just cause”

That is the justification

“You’ll make the world a safer place”

“You’ll protect your nation”

 

These are the politician’s words

Spoken with passion and pride

Spoken away from the line of fire

Spoken from where warmongers hide

 

Men of empty rhetoric

These politicians never see danger

Safe on their leather seats

They never hear shots fired in anger

IF IT MOVES SALUTE IT

 

My blonde girlfriends

Are really barmy

They think general motors

Is in the army

 

PRIVATE PARTS

A young man joined the army

And he was known as Private Parts

But he was never meant for soldiering

The was clear right from the start

 

He was always finding trouble

It followed wherever he went

And he was often in the glasshouse

Or taking corporal punishment

 

He became a Major catastrophe

With every action that he took

General disorder was now the norm

They must throw at him the book

 

But he met a girl in the catering corps

Who was known as the officer’s mess

Everything changed from that day on

As he asked her to wed and she said yes

 

They married as soon as could be arranged

Saying I do between labor pains

Her bridesmaids were from the cookhouse

And his best man was Seaman Stains

 

A Sergeant is what he has now become

And finding soldiering really suits

And the couple still happily married

And now they have four new recruits