"We Were Food For The Gun"
You probably know British metallers Motorhead for rampaging songs like Ace Of Spades. But here's a surprisingly beautiful and deeply moving ballad written by Lemmy about the teenage soldiers of World War I :
The footage used in this clip is from Peter Weir's Gallipoli. It's chilling that the auto-ad line I saw attached to this YouTube clip is for 'Advanced Body Armour'. There was none of that back then, of course.
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