Rhymes of a Roughneck by Pat O'Cotter
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I loathe the Anglo-Saxon race, I hate their English speech, For where the Union Jack waves high, the Cross will ever reach. Their ignorant millions till the soil, for they protect their own, I hate it for I've never had this ensign for mine own. I taught you how to use God's church, I built the path you trod, I filled your mouth until you claimed, a pardnership with God. I told you tales to tell to men, I coached you every hour Until an egomaniac ran wild, mad with a lust for power. I made an army for you then, the peer of all war lords, I smiled the night you went away to visit Norway fiords. I knew your Bagdad railway schemes, I knew the Austrian claims, I knew that German gold would guide the mad assassin's aims. I knew the schemes that you had planned, the one that nothing curbs, I envied your diplomacy that blamed it on the Serbs. My brain ne'er hatched a finer scheme, your armies marking time And then the rape of Belgium, your premier man-sized crime. And if one deals in hellish schemes, that one must stamp your worth, You made a shambles of that land, you moved hell up on earth. The cries of mangled maidens, the mutilated child, The tears of butchered mothers, would drive an earth man wild, And thru it all proclaiming, you were the tool of God-- O pardner in this orgy, no one suspected fraud. You butchered, maimed and pillaged, hell never saw such sights As the Prussian Guard remembers, on those first Belgian nights. O shades of maddened Nero and his early Christian fires, Could he have been in Belgium and have seen your funeral pyres! |
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