Aftermath (Siegried Sassoon)

from Poetry and Music 4 by Toby Darling

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Aftermath

Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
Have you forgotten yet?…
Em Am G Am
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
Em Am G Am
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Dm7 Am7 Dm7 Am7
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
Bb Am D
But the past is just the same—and War's a bloody game…
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am x2
Have you forgotten yet?…
Em Am G F Em
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.

Cm Gm
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz—
Cm Gm
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Cm Bb
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Cm D7
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench—
Gm Bb Cm D7
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Cm Gm Cm D7
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'

Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack—
Em Am G Am
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am
With dying eyes and lolling heads—those ashen-grey
Em Am G Am
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Em Cmaj7 Em/A Am x2
Have you forgotten yet?…
Em Am G F Em
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget.

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from Poetry and Music 4, released August 1, 2016
Poem by Siegried Sassoon
Music by Toby Darling

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