There is a song called "Lest we Forget" that I picked up in Barnsley FC many moons ago but naturally I have forgotten who wrote it.
The start is
If I just close my eyes I remember the day
Lord Kitchener called us to go
And at seventeen years I joined brave volunteers
What else was a young man to do.

Whoever it was did rather a good song about a greyhound as well - Rob somebody?
I'll do some trawling in the addled recesses of my memory and see if I can come up with it, 'cos it's well worth tracking down.


BTW has anyone mentioned (Don't Despise) The Deserter (Fairport Convention, Old New Borrowed Blue)