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Now, bear in mind,
we had him on the run, Jerry.
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We'd stood to all night, of course.
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As we stood up, the bullets
flew around us. Like rain it was.
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I well remember - and bear in mind,
I was platoon sergeant -
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it therefore was behove of me
to keep morale up -
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so I said, more as a laugh,
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cos it wasn't tense or below par...
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You very rarely are, at the start line.
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Take no notice of the Yanks. They haven't
lived. And they was always bombing us.
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Now there's rarely any tenseness.
It's the relaxation you notices.
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Little kips all along the start line,
barring them as is already haywire.
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So... more to raise a laugh...
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Like shoelaces, seeing as they're tight.
Not crippling you, not causing you to trip.
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There.
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Silly ha'porth! Crippled you. It's important
to raise a laugh on the battlefield.
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And very humorous the laughs can be.
Some humorous books being written.
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More for a laugh, I said "We should have
us gas capes on. It is raining bullets."
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That was when we lost Charles Black
from a raindrop.
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I said "We should have us umbrellas
and gas capes, boys. Raining bullets."
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"We'll get wet, boys,
if we're not careful, chums" I said.
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More for a laugh.