Thanks for the interest you have shown in my song. Interestingly enough recently I have discovered my own grandfather served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and I wrote this song for them some years previously. Do you have a MySpace if so you can contact me via my email http://www.myspace.com/lessullivan

ROSES OF NO MAN'S LAND
(Les Sullivan)

Jim lay alone by a roadside in Flanders
Blown from his horse in a sky full of lead
Then came a voice as if spoken from nowhere
You'll be alright chum there are far worse than you
Just a few pills and a mouthful of water
Gave him the hope and the will to go on
Then the rosebud had left him to tend to another
A father, a brother, a husband, a son

CHORUS
Where are the roses of no mans land
Where are the roses that held out a hand
To the wounded and frightened, the injured and dying
Where are the roses that flower in hell.

After the shelling a boy he lay buried
Who the hell knew he was missing at all
Then a hand brushed his fingers and a voice said 'one here sir'
Men dug like demons and from death he was saved
'Boy I'm so glad to see you' said the soldier
'It's lucky we saw you' said the man with no gun
Then the rosebud had left him to tend to another
A father, a brother, a husband, a son
Chorus

Where are the roses that grew in the meadows
That looked on the slaughter of the khaki and grey
With a bag full of potions, an armour of courage
Who searched for the living by night and by day
What sort of man does it take to be smiling
When inside he's screaming for the strength to go on
But he knew he was needed to tend to another
A father, a brother, a husband, a son
Chorus

As I own the copyright I am happy for it to be sung I only ask that people mention that I wrote it.

PS what country are you posting from?