Next year we are to bring all the soldiers
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at
Instead of working.
And this is all right.
It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.
Next year we shall be living in a
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
