There's harvests soaked and full of dead;

There's Prussians prowling after loot

And choosing who they'd better shoot;

There's kids gone lost; there's fights for bread.

It's thanks to that there strip of sea,

And what floats on it, you and me

And things we love aren't going shares

In German culture. They'd 'a' tried

To spare us some, but we're this side.

It's so arranged—no fault of theirs.