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I Don't Want to Die

Anonymous Americas

I WANT to go home,
  I want to go home,
  I don't want to go in the trenches no more,
  Where whizz-bangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar.
  Take me over the sea
  Where the Alleyman can't get at me.
  Oh my,
  I don't want to die,
  I want to go home.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AAbbccddA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 263
Words 54
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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