Salonika, item 20

• December 22, 2016 21:27:49 Sue Bryant

  This is the longest item of the lot, it is a piece

  Of Poetry written by a R.E. Bloke as

  I thought it would suit you so here goes

   

  WHO WON THE WAR AND WHY

   

  You want me to tell you a story

    Of who won the war, and why?

  Well your Grandad and quite what he was boy

    But as you wants the truth, well I’ll try

  There’s some things we’d like to forget lad

    There’s things that your memory keeps green

  Though they say I’ve the “TAP”, I remembers

    What happened since August fourteen

   

  You say that you’ve read all the histories

    Of who started the war and when

  But you can’t find out just who won it;

    And why they won it – and then,

  How come your poor old Grandad.

    Who’ll tell you the truth as you knows

  Just wait til I’ve had my Quinine lad,

    Twenty grains, that’s better, here goes

   

  You see it was like this, the Germans

    Thought they’d like all the earth to run

  So they started by walking through Belgium

    Into France. Now look here my son

  It’s no use of you interrupting

    And telling me you know all that

  I’m telling this story – not you – see.

    And I’m telling the truth – compare that.

   

  It’s never been put in the histories

    And the war office records don’t show

  The why and the wherefore of winning

    But I was there, and I know

  I was just going to say when you stopped me

    We bungled our lads over to France

  And we stopped Mr Fritz in his travels

    And led him a hell of a dance

   

  We was keeping him busy when Turkey

    Thought she’d like to come into the show

  Then Italy wanted a flutter

    Don’t interrupt, you don’t know!

  Then old Johnny Bulgar got busy

    And Serbia, well Serbia went “west”

  So they sent some of us out to help ‘em

    I was one of ‘em, one of the Best

   

   

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