Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRIVATE HILL, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH


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First Line: I jumped right in and I crossed the sea
Last Line: It's enough for me that I won the war.
Subject(s): Soldiers


I jumped right in and I crossed the sea
And I done my bit in the infantry
For Freedom's flag and Freedom's shore,
The rights of little nations, or
Whatever it was we was fightin' for.

I wasn't none of your second loots --
I was just the guy that the gunner shoots.
For you got to have in a war like that
Some privates, too, when the guns rat-tat
For the folks to do their shootin' at.

The general he got bigger pay
But I guess I was needed, in a way;
For at half-past four or half-past three
In the cold gray dawn when a shell went whee-e
The guy it was lookin' for was me.

I was Private Hill when I went in,
And a private I come out ag'in.
I didn't git no croy de gore,
But I ain't mad and I ain't sore --
It's enough for me that I won the war.





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