Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Children's Crusade , by - Sting. Song from the album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, in the genre ПопRelease date: 31.12.1984
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Children's Crusade |
| Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen |
| Marching through countries they’d never seen |
| Virgins with rifles, a game of charades |
| All for a children’s crusade |
| Pawns in the game are not victims of chance |
| Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France |
| Poppies for young men, death’s bitter trade |
| All of those young lives betrayed |
| The children of England would never be slaves |
| They’re trapped on the wire and dying in waves |
| The flower of England face down in the mud |
| And stained in the blood of a whole generation |
| Corpulent generals safe behind lines |
| History’s lessons drowned in red wine |
| Poppies for young men, death’s bitter trade |
| All of those young lives betrayed |
| All for a children’s crusade |
| The children of England would never be slaves |
| They’re trapped on the wire and dying in waves |
| The flower of England face down in the mud |
| And stained in the blood of a whole generation |
| Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four |
| Fixing in doorways, opium slaves |
| Poppies for young men, such bitter trade |
| All of those young lives betrayed |
| All for a children’s crusade |