Little song for the maimed

Benjamin Peret

Lend me your arm

To replace my leg

The rats ate it for me

At Verdun

At Verdun

I ate a lot of rats

But they didn't give me back my leg

And that's why I was given the Croix de Guerre

And a wooden leg

And a wooden leg



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