Children's Crusade

Intro: In position pluck the three top strings.  Verse 1:  Young men and soldiers nineteen fourteen.  Marching through countries they’d  never seen  Virgins with rifles a game of charades  All for a children’s crusade  Verse 2: Follow same format as verse 1  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  Chorus:                                     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  Verse 3: follow same format as verse 1  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  Instrumental solo           Bass line during instrumental is:           E-----------------|      Repeat this throughout the instrumental  B-----------------|  G-----------------|  D----0------------|  A-0-2--0-2--------|  E---------0-------|  Repeat Chorus                             Verse 3: follow same format as in verse 1  Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty-four  Fixing in door ways opium slaves  Poppies for young men death’s bitter trade  All of those young lives betrayed  All for a children’s crusade.  Fade.