Harry Goes to War
Decoration Day
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In 1943, I was called to serve in the army at Camp Borden We left Winnipeg with nothing on our backs, 'cept the prairie dust kicking up from the tracks The night before, we all stood in line and poured our canteens on the ground But two of us slipped out when the train fuelled up, and we shared a beer out of some measuring cups At the summer's end, my friend Stan and I hitched a ride down to Windsor Met a kind young man and we sang German songs around the bonfire all night long He told his folks that we were old school friends, then woke me up to ask my name We returned to camp and stayed out of sight, then scaled the fence in the dead of night Sergeant got the word to close the prisoner camp and he burned all the instruments that they played And the camp doctor had a dog called Fritz they made us shoot just outside the sticks 'Cause he only answered to German calls Rest easy Fritz, you peaceful soul Some years after the war, I saw a prisoner's face; while bagging oranges at the marketplace
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