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The Aching Heart of Picardy

from Workhouse Blues by Twenty-One Crows

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The Aching Heart of Picardy

They do not lie where you have seen
At every square and village green
The rolls of names and tributes paid
Where paper poppies, still, are laid
Beneath the sullen angels’ wings
On each
November’s
Mourning.

They lie here.

They do not lie and never did
Where all those last farewells were bid.
At every door and garden gate
We promised them that we would wait
But monuments now stand like notes
To say that we
Could wait
No more.

They lie here.

They do not lie among these streets
Where all those drums of war once beat
Where cheers were raised and hymns were sung
As they rolled past with rifles slung.
So proudly they all marched away,
Out of our lives
And
Disappeared.

They lie here.


They lie here and always will,
Where now the days have all turned still.
Beneath these ever rolling skies,
Where Lark song trills and swallows fly
And trees have grown to hide the scars
In sullen clumps and somber groves.

They lie here where they were slain,
Beneath the corn on this great plain
And in rows of Portland stone
That stand in line and glint like bone
And float like rafts in countless yards
Upon this slow and broad-backed land.

In the aching heart,
Of,
Picardy.

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from Workhouse Blues, released December 17, 2017

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Dominic Plucknett, Rebecca Tann, Jon Griffin and Andy Thomas

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