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Hitler's Birthday

There'll always be a Hitler
Beside the silver Spree
If Germans are such silly sheep
As Germans seem to be:
There'll always be a Hitler
To worry you and me
Until we take the German race
And dump it in the sea.
(Sung to the tune There'll always be an England)
April 23, 1944

Notes

This poem first appeared in the Sunday Graphic, a British newspaper.
This version is taken from Light The Lights by A. P. Herbert, published 1945 by Methuen & Co.

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