1916 Lyrics - 1916 - Motorhead

16 years old when I went to the war 

To fight for a land fit for heroes 

God on my side and a gun in my hand 

Chasing my days down to zero 

And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died 

And I never did get any older 

But I knew at the time that a year in the line 

Was a long enough life for a soldier 

We all volunteered and we wrote down our names 

And we added two years to our ages 

Eager for life and ahead of the game 

Ready for history's pages 

And we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood 

Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder 

A thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun 

And that's what you are when you're soldiers 

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I heard my friend cry and he sank to his knees 

Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother 

And I fell by his side and that's how we died 

Clinging like kids to each other 

And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood 

And I wept as his body grew colder 

And I called for my mother and she never came 

Though it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame 

The day not half over and ten thousand slain 

And now there's nobody remembers our names 

And that's how it is for a soldier 

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