Johnny I hardly Knew Ye

This is my take on this classic tune.

There's drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
There's drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
There's drums and guns and drums and guns
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Where are your eyes with loving gaze, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes with loving gaze, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes with loving gaze
The metal fragments so foully raze
Your savaged eyes look like a maze....
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Where are your legs with which ye run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs with which ye run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs with which ye run
When you were forced to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Where is the mind that thought so well, hurroo, hurroo
Where is the mind that thought so well, hurroo, hurroo
Where is the mind that thought so well
One too many bombs or shells
Now your mind is trapped in hell...
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Where is the face I came to know, hurroo, hurroo
Where is the face I came to know, hurroo, hurroo
Where is the face I came to know
The flaming gas made for a show
Your face etched in the afterglow...
Oh Johnny I hardly Knew ye.
What of the lungs with which
you'd sing, hurroo, hurroo
What of the lungs with which you'd sing, hurroo, hurroo
What of the lungs with which you'd sing
The phosgene gas was an evil thing
And now your breaths are laboring...
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
We'll lump you with the other war dregs
Here is a bowl so you can beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again
there must be a new cause to defend...
But they never give us back the men...
Johnny I hardly knew ye...