[Intro]
[Verse]
You know me not I have no name
No foreign field forever rich
With English bones and lion mane
Just rotting me in rancid ditch
[Verse]
Four hundred years before the Somme
In northern land by civil strife
I fought for one a rightful son
But died for mine and loving wife
[Chorus]
The blunt and bludgeon of your name
Befits the solid soil you bear
Slab of ground to bear the slain
Tow your ton of souls to care
[Verse]
Not yet king but with father frail
Our duty and the day did blast
We faced our foe through snow and hail
And prayed to Him a palm might cast
[Verse]
So many men I had not seen
In battle ranged by axe and pole
Fearsome fury unhinged the scene
The dying roar of hearts and soul
[Chorus]
The blunt and bludgeon of your name
Befits the solid soil you bear
Slab of ground to bear the slain
Tow your ton of souls to care
[Break]
[Verse]
We stood and lost all sense and mind
Each icy blast of sleet cut through
A shower of arrows on the wind
Angled angels for b***d they flew
[Verse]
I did not see the battle whole
Nor see my family home again
A hacking blade my life soon stole
Across the jaw and through the brain
[Chorus]
The blunt and bludgeon of your name
Befits the solid soil you bear
Slab of ground to bear the slain
Tow your ton of souls to care
[Verse]
The day turned quiet my body fell
No tumult as the water gave
Its benediction through the smell
As muddy men cold-capped my grave
[Chorus]
The blunt and bludgeon of your name
Befits the solid soil you bear
Slab of ground to bear the slain
Tow your ton of souls to care
[Chorus]
The blunt and bludgeon of your name
Befits the solid soil you bear
Slab of ground to bear the slain
Tow your ton of souls to care
[Outro]
