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Fields Of Carbon & Blood (1984)

Fields Of Carbon And Blood (1984)

 

You praised as they died in their dugouts

for a cause proclaimed honest and true.

No mention of cowards or traitors -

a justified war to see through.

Now you mock the bravest of fighters

who live to bring coal from the earth.

Not bully-boyed in to your armies -

but pushed down the pits after birth.

 

They ask for no...

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