Corporal Evans Two One Nine

Corporal Evans

Corporal Evans two one nine

Stepped upon a helmund mine

A soldier in the line of war

No longer with us any more

And many will there be who weep

For heros wrapped in deathly sleep

He could have been a friend of mine

Or maybe even one of yours

If you had crossed to foreign shores

Where desert sands are windblown high

And alien suns light up the sky

Above a cross that tells no lie

But what use now to reason why

A silhuette against the sky

As drifting clouds go dreaming by

Is almost like a flower sigh

And tears that fell and slowly dry

Can yet not say why he should die

So ask not who the bell tolls for

Or who the badge of honour wore

The names that from our ancient lore

Still call as through an open door

And speak of many many more

Who fell and died in foreign war ...