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J. Dale Walker - C'est la vie, c'est la mort

from Round 34, Week 11 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Eh. S'alright. Don't love it, don't hate it. It wouldn't be me if there wasn't the occasional political protest song.

lyrics

Mon ami! My brother said to me
As he bled out on the Somme
Au Paris, we swore one day we’d meet
After bleak midwinter’s bombs

C’est la vie, c’est la mort
They sent our kids to war
But only hungry poor
Lost a friend, lost a brother
Lost a hundred more and then
They start another war

Had some peace, and the world, she sighed relief
And my, how the 20’s roared
It all came down, and in ‘39 we found
A madman’s rabid hoard
Don’t get me wrong, he and his filthy throng
Deserved all the wrath they bore
Sad thing is, one of many friends of his
Was robber baron Henry Ford

C’est la vie, c’est la mort
They send our kids to war
But only hungry poor
Lose a friend, lose a brother
Lose a hundred more and then
They start another war

Didn’t take too much longer after that
We breached another shore
Had family there, and he said with iron stares
They breed them hard, our marine corps
Told me tales of sticks and stones and prayers
With a charge the farmers roared
Korean lands stayed in Korean hands
Brought spears to a shooting war

C’est la vie, c’est la mort
They send our kids to war
But only hungry poor
Lose a friend, lose a brother
Lose a hundred more and then
They start another war

In Vietnam, with bravado and aplomb
We burned a teenage Viet Cong
We ain’t learned, as sure as our world turns
They’ll take poor kids from their mom’s
They’ll be damned if they’ll die in Vietnam,
Iraq, or Afghanistan
Same ol’ story, they steal our blood and glory
Time to stick it to the fucking man

C’est la vie, c’est la mort
They send our kids to war
But only hungry poor
Lose a friend, lost a brother
Lose hundred more and then
They start another war

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from Round 34, Week 11, released November 29, 2021

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