Corporal Chalkie - Mekons

Lying in bed with my girl from Sussex

Reading the writings of a man from Kent

And the Earth in the garden gets blacker

Just another war we say

I’m the man from Surrey with a ground-floor flat

And I know what happened before I was born

The huns and the nips got uppy with blighty

And Tommy went out and beat them all home

Running for breakfast with my call-up forms

Seeing the sniper and the bullets in my arms

And the great big bloke from platoon thirty-two

Is calling me a poof and a stream of number two

So I lie in bed with my girl from Sussex

And read the writings of a man from Kent

And the Earth in the garden gets blacker

It’s another war we say

There is no more to war than cor lummie, Sarge