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The Nazi Planes Were Overhead Last Night

Dedicated to W Bennet-Hamley
By William McDonnell Copyright reserved

My eyes are heavy lidded, there's a load upon my mind,
For reluctantly I'm turning night to day,
The place that I call Home Sweet Home, I've had to leave behind;
A time-bomb made it dangerous to stay.
Still, everybody's in this, and we can't afford to grouse -
I've heard one hero laugh it off all right;
He said. Aye, that's my front door, lad, but where's my bloomin' house?
The Nazi planes were overhead last night,
There's a fellow cursing horribly where once a garden smiled,
For prize blooms blossom best without a blast -
Why, dammit, it's enough to get a fellow proper riled;
They might have let the Flower Show get past.
You never see much difference, and you feel a bit perplexed
When the old place seems the same in morning light,
For you know somebody got it and you wonder if you're next -
The Nazi planes were overhead last night.

There's a kiddy crying loudly for a doll mat's gone astray
There's a mother sobbing softly for a child -
There's a frightened lassie longing for the lad who's gone away
And she sighs as she remembers how he smiled.
There's a Darby telling Joan to keep her heart up through the strain,
Don't you worry, lass. We'll get along all right -
We'd no home when we started, and I'm fit to start again -
The Nazi planes were overhead last night
But time rolls on - this too will pass - all nightmares have an end,
The skies will clear - the world will tire of strife -
And ghostly Huns will haunt the spheres with neither foe nor friend,
Their life in death for dropping death in life.
He's a high and mighty Hitler, with a damned determined thrust,
And he's done his best to shake Great Britain's Might -
But in God's eyes, he's a microbe; and it's in that God we trust
If the Nazi planes come over here to-night.

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