We Love You, Ares!

Sung to the tune of "We Love You, Conrad" from 'Bye Bye, Birdie'
(With apologies to Charles Strouse and Lee Adams and a sorry/not sorry to the BB Generation)


"World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth." -Ernest Hemingway

"Anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a madman."    -Captain Harry Yoxall

                                   
                                            ECCE HOMI!!
                                                

We love you, Ares
Oh, yes we do

40 million shattered souls
We offer you.

Until the next Great War
We're blue

Oh, Ares, we'll miss you!

DB/fin 10.23.2018


Songs:
'1916' by Motorhead
'One' by Metallica
'I Bury the Living' by Morrissey
'The Hero's Battlefield' ('Ein Heldenleben'), Op.40. TrV.190 by Richard Strauss/ The Chicago Symphony Orchestra cond. by Bernard Haitink
'Happy X-Mas (War is Over)' by John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band
                                                                w/The Harlem Community Choir
'My Dream of the Big Parade' by The Peerless Quartet w/Billy Murray(1926)
'Why Do We Fight' by case/lang/veirs

(I have all of these songs in a playlist called 'War Is All Hell' you can find on Spotify for free though you have to join the site to listen to them in full. I may or may not do the same thing with all the ones I've mentioned in previous posts. Stay tuned.)