Ever since I landed here,
Things have looked so dull and drear,
Wonder if this war’s in vain,
Wonder why there’s so much rain?
My face and hands badly peeled,
Playing ‘Mock War’ in sodden fields,
Body aches from chills and pains,
Still it rains and rains, and rains.
Tomorrow we’ll be on our way,
To ‘The Front’ I heard them say,
Tonight we loaded on the trains,
Wonder why it rains and rains?
The guy who wrote ’bout Sunny France,
Must have been in an awful trance,
Wisht ol’ sun would come peepin’ thru,
Perhaps I wouldn ‘t feel so blue.
Clouds a-skootin’ fast overhead,
Hiked thru mud ’til I’m damn near dead,
Gee! I’m wet clear thru to the skin,
Wonder when we’re ‘Goin’ In’?
Earth seems to be a-quiver with fright,
Gosh, I’d like to be home tonight,
Never that I’d be ‘Over Here’,
Lord, this rain makes a fellow queer.
Been in the lines near thirty days,
Know I’m changed in lots of ways,
Now I know why I had that trainin’
Wonder if it will ever stop raining’?
Relieved from the ‘lines’ last night,
Gee, but this beard of mine’s a fright,
Hikes a thousand kilos more,
Damn this rain it’s making me sore.
Been soaking wet since September,
Here it is ‘way up in November;
But how old Heinies’ on the run,
Wonder if this rain’s rainin’ for fun?
Boys are not talking much today,
What they’re thinking none can say,
Just got the news that ‘War is done.’
Must be right ’cause there’s the ol’ sun!
(Lee Charles McCollum)
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