Seek out the Home Service's live album 'Wild Life' - I think it's still available. It's on Fledg'ling records FLED 3001. The medley The Reaper/Scarecrow/Battle of The Somme is devastating:

THE REAPER
(Bill Caddick)

So now it's done once more the shining field
Has gone to feed the Reaper's blade
All silent now, the stubble it lies still
With blood red poppies overlaid
"Where are my sons" the mother cries
Just hardly grown yet gone away
"Away, away" the Reaper sighs
Cut down like corn on an autumn day
So once more the seed of life is sown
And in the loving earth is laid
But it's never done once more the young men all
Have gone to feed the Reaper's blade

Scarecrow
(John Tams)

I see the barley moving as the mowers find their pace
I see the line advancing with a steady timeless grace
And there's passion in their eyes and there's honour in each face
As they scythe down the castles and the courts

Blame it on the fathers, blame it on the sons
Blame it on the poppies and the pain
Blame it on the generals, blame it on their guns
Blame it on the scarecrow in the rain

I smell the smoke of stubble as the harvest is brought down
I see a fire burning as it purges all around
I see a field turned to ashes and the only living sound
Is the skylarks as they try to reach the sun

I see the barbed wire growing like a bramble on the land
I see a farm turned to a fortress and a future turn to sand
I see a meadow turn to mud and from it grows a hand
Like a scarecrow that is fallen in the rain