Footsoldier

from LOCKDOWN SIEBEN VOLUME 7 by Sieben

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This song was originally recorded on my The Line & the Hook album

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Footsoldier
“I was at Austerlitz”
when cannons broke the ice.
The line goes ‘a brave fellow’
but the hook never came to pull us out.
Beresina too;
I froze and sank to the light of Moscow’s fire.
They held cold hands to that grill
and dished more orders still.

The Somme, I was filleted.
Skinned at Flanders, blanched in Mains.
The line: ‘Your country needs you’.
The hook: Our Generals did not.
The Aisne we held ‘til broken in a surf of blood.

We rot on the line or die on the hook.

At Dunkirk we glistened
like petrol mackerel; rusting the dunes.
Harvested, or gorged they tossed us back?
Kursk - we clogged their wheels with blood.

We rot on the line or die on the hook.

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from LOCKDOWN SIEBEN VOLUME 7, released November 6, 2020
Written, performed and live looped in lockdown by Matt Howden, home in Redroom studio, Oct 2020 P+C Redroom Records 2020

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