The Ballad of Arthur Robinson
Matthew DeChant
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His name was Arthur Robinson Just seventeen years of age When he went to fight the Kaiser Britannia's war to wage Off on a grand adventure, he thought Like the heroes of which he read They'd be back in time for Christmas dinner For the tea and gingerbread But now he sits in trenches, dark and damp Writing letters they'll never see Eating rats they catch on bayonets And drinking beer gone green The officers talk in hushéd tones Of battles won and lost Of how they gained 10 yards a push But never of the cost Now our Arthur was sent on patrol one day When he saw nestled in a tree A great black raven beck'ning to him In between the branches three Arthur cautiously approached the bird As it swooped down on the ground And it took the shape of the Alder-King In a dark and misty crown The Alder-king offered him a deal He smelled the fear in Arthur's breath That Arthur would survive the war If he pledged his soul 'pon death And our Arthur thought, of his hearth and home Of his family, and of France He accepted the Alder-king's deal And gave his middle finger as advance On his way back from patrol that day He passed the German camp He saw a priest, giving mass And the soldiers looked askance He saw one out there, not with the rest And he saw Arthur too They locked their eyes, and raised their guns Neither knew what to do Arthur saw that the German boy No older than himself Was too missing his middle finger And his face knew fear itself They both trembled with hope and fear Not knowing the path to take And they both squeezed their iron triggers And the Alder-King, with laughter, quaked
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