Rhymes of a Roughneck by Pat O'Cotter
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page 42 of 49 (85%)
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Could he have seen your orgies he would have wept for shame
But had he your fiendish cunning, he might have done the same. But the hated Saxon balked you and the desperate fighting Frank Hurled back our super devils and took us on the flank. Your inbred tainted offspring lost his chances at Verdun Where curtained steel just saved the world from the grip of brutal Hun. But Wilhelm, you are crafty, you are mine own I ween Your fertile brain had brought to life the hell-born submarine, You killed the unarmed merchantmen, you murdered in the dark, You sent the child and mother to feed your friend the shark. The world grew sick with wonder, no voice was raised to laud And still you did it in your name, the name of you and God. Where you have trod the world is dead, no sign of life or mirth, You beat me, Bill, you beat my hell, with this of yours on earth. You won hell's admiration and of all of mine own folk When you paired off with the ghastly Turk, that was a master stroke. And all the things you did before, just now seem weak and tame Since you launched that Dardanelles campaign of pillage, lust and shame. To fuss thus with my chosen race, my ally since time dates Proclaimed that Kultur and the Turk are well matched running mates. And tho I've watched hell's orgies, and stood by in fiendish glee, I quit you, Bill, these Turkish stunts are far too much for me. When officers from Kultur's class stand by and watch a Turk Just disembowel a mother, why, Bill, it makes me shirk. It makes me shudder and I've watched the master fiends of hell, But none of them have brains like you, none do their work so well. When Turk and German flood with oil, then set a school ablaze |
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