DID YOU FIGHT IN THE WAR DADDY?

 

Did you fight in the war daddy?

My mother asked my grandpa

He only answered shortly yes

She had picked at an old scar

She jumped for joy and hugged him

And gave out a great hurrah

 

Did you win the war daddy?

My mother asked my grandpa

He only answered shortly yes

She was proud of her old da

She wanted to know more

But that didn’t get her far

 

She was just his little girl

And didn’t know the truth

The horrors that he had seen

And all that wasted youth

But these things he kept inside

And could not say to little Ruth

 

The truth he could not tell her

Was that nobody won the war

Both sides were the losers

If anyone was keeping score

That was the bitter truth of it

The Germans just lost more