Defuse The Bombs

When the war was over there are many things left over

That never went bang and were there secretly hiding

The Germans defused them in many places 

And were paid in food and reduced sentences

 

Some new types of British bomb had a tricky fuse

Hans lost two of his friends to these tricky things

The fuse diagrams were held up at the docks

Was this on purpose or simply bureaucratic bumbling?

 

From beach to hill to city nowhere was safe

Mortars and shells and bombs were everywhere

Just waiting to wake up and kill one or two or ten

Deadly seeds of mayhem born from carnage

 

Made in factories by old men and girls

To fight the biggest event in human history

Now it was over those evil creations needed to be cleared

Prisoners of War got the job and in return a lighter sentence

 

Only if they weren't proven party members Nazis members

Most were teenage soldiers who were green and scared

They cleared mines off Danish beaches and bombs in German cities

 

You'd think more didn't explode than did

A legacy that last to this day

The sad memory of war...