My father said - son, your country needs you Come join the king's army in the final breakthrough The officer told me - shut up and attack In no man's land sludge I'm firmly stuck I saw private Baker with his guts in the mud He called for his mother coughed up blood I found all my squad mates in a shell hole They all were dead, shredded as coal And...Learn More

One day the empire will fall and Kaiser will die Assassination is the path, terror is the way to divide The Austro-Hungarian beast will be beheaded by Serbs A tyrant's overthrow is the only acceptable way Welcome to Sarajevo Welcome to Sarajevo I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs And I do not care what form of...Learn More

My name is private Johnson, I'm from AEF The 369th Infantry Regiment. From Harlem to France, from ghetto to trench And honestly, here's not much difference May 15th, an enemy patrol around twenty huns Me and a box of grenades, I threw it all then took up my rifle, c'mon 191 days under fire, never retire Men of Bronze go forward or die Hold one's...Learn More

Things didn't go down as expected Hill 145, ill-fated Vimy Ridge We are entrenched in mud as wild hogs, my 47th Battalion A small wooded knoll we called "the Pimple" 2 miles in front of us We need to capture the machine gun nests, each was heavily defended Thousands of wounded, thousands of dead We're pinned down by the machine guns Millions of...Learn More

It were the good tunnels, 26 ways of doom One million pounds of ammonal Were packed into the underground pits Our artillery was silenced, for the first time in years all was quiet The sky was a very dark blue in the pre-dawn light And I swear we heard how the nightingale sings 3 a.m, 7th June We demolished the bottom of Messines Trigger down,...Learn More

Big Bertha trampled you down 8 shells an hour, 8 hundred kilograms of trinitrotoluene Mit Gott für König und Vaterland We are going to grind you down Froschfressers get what they deserve Franzacken auf wiedersehen Sergeant Kunze leads us to death - your pioneer squad, your nine comrades All the rifles are fully loaded - Hände hoch Fort...Learn More

Life as a gift, our life as a present from King Albert to Tsar Nikolai Now the ship is sailing to the shore of Archangel We move down to the Peterhof, Russia meets us with the solemn march And soon we moved on to the Zbarazh, Ozerna and Tarnopol We entered the war in Galizia We entered the war Hold the line, Minerva will cover us The Hotchkiss...Learn More

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride? Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? And rest for a while in the warm summer sun I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the great fallen in 1916 I hope you died well and I hope you died clean Or young Willie McBride, was it...Learn More