Drummer
The boy enlisted, as he thought,
to serve his country’s good;
but violence that we export
returns to source in blood.
Stock tributes to his sacrifice
we piously repeat.
It’s drummer boys who pay the price
for drums their elders beat.
The boy enlisted, as he thought,
to serve his country’s good;
but violence that we export
returns to source in blood.
Stock tributes to his sacrifice
we piously repeat.
It’s drummer boys who pay the price
for drums their elders beat.
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