I WANT to go home,
I want to go home,
I don't want to go in the trenches no more,
Where whizz-bangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar.
Take me over the sea
Where the Alleyman can't get at me.
Oh my,
I don't want to die,
I want to go home.
Notes
Other anonymous poems ...
Composition Date:
1914-1918?
The lyrical form of this poem is aabbccca.
1. The editors note: "This was one of the most famous of war
songs."
6. the Alleyman: the `allemand' (French), the German.
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