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November The 12th
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My name is Private Joe Carpenter
I’m with the 51st Rifles in France
And I’m here to pick up the pieces of people
They left when the armies advanced
The rats here grew fat on the flesh of my comrades
Rotting out in No Man’s Land
Now I’m trying to give some poor bugger his name back
When all I can find is his hand
November 11th they rang out the bells
The crowds hit the streets as they silenced the shells
And I bet old Lloyd George was proud of himself
But then he weren’t digging graves on November the 12th
My brother died up in Wipers last winter
He’d signed up as soon as he could
Now bits of his body are buried forever
In ten foot of Passchendaele mud
And there is no graveside my mother can mourn at
And she cries out into the night
She says that his death was a message from Heaven
That God never meant us to fight
November 11th they rang out the bells
The crowds hit the streets as they silenced the shells
And I bet old Lloyd George was proud of himself
But then he weren’t digging graves on November the 12th
I was digging some place when I came face to face
With two unblinking eyes staring back
It gave me a fright, by some trick of the light
Christ, I swear that it looked like our Jack
But it was some German boy barely sixteen
I stood there and I whispered a prayer
I said you weren’t ever really my enemy, son
No, he’s sat in some office somewhere
November 11th they rang out the bells
The crowds hit the streets as they silenced the shells
And I hope all warmongers rot down in Hell
I’d make them dig graves on November the 12th
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Matthew, Matthew
03:01
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Never Said Goodbye
02:36
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White Feather
02:47
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Because They Told Me To
03:23
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Blankets & Cocoa
09:27
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The Little Lie
05:18
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The Rose
02:12
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Take The General Instead
02:15
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The Letter
05:49
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The Ballad of Joe Carter
06:09
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Peace
02:45
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK
Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from
Scarborough.
Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.
He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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