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(Dedicated to Shmuel Itskovits, Paul’s late father-in-law who was a survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp).
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Peat Bog Soldiers by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) is from the album Night Worker.
Peat Bog Soldiers is based on the spirit of the original song ‘Peat Bog Soldiers’ written by concentration camp inmates that you can read about HERE.
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‘Possibly the sneakiest catchy track in the collection is mid-tempo “Peat Bog Soldiers.” Supported by an ’80s-reminiscent heavy synth backdrop, an infectious beat, and an earnestly important vocal delivery, the song’s irregular rhythm belies its earworm quotient’. Geoff Wilbur
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‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) are song writer and composer Paul Odiase and song lyricist Paul Robert Thomas.
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Peat Bog Soldiers Lyrics
Walking through the fields
Walking through the fields of bones
Bleached white
Like the burning stones
There’s not a bird
There’s not a bird to sing his song
No-one to stand up to scream
What they’re doing to us is wrong
We’re peat bog soldiers
Fighting to stay as one
This mud’s our battlefield
Our soul’s our only gun
We’re peat bog soldiers
We’re peat bog soldiers
We’re peat bog soldiers
We fight the greatest battle
The score is never settled
Though cunning and full of deceit
The enemy can be beat
We’re peat bog soldiers
Fighting to stay as one
This mud’s our battlefield
Our soul’s our only gun
Storm clouds all around my head
As I lie on my wooden bed
I have no tears left to cry
I’ve seen far too many die
We’re peat bog soldiers
Fighting to stay as one
This mud’s our battlefield
Our soul’s our only gun
There are children over there
I see them through the barbed wire
In the distance they look back
From the future they look back
Children, children come to here
Don’t close your eyes or your ears
Learn from what you hear and see
Through you our memory is guaranteed
We’re peat bog soldiers
Fighting to stay as one
This mud’s our battlefield
Our soul’s our only gun
We’re peat bog soldiers
We’re peat bog soldiers
Fighting to stay as one
This mud’s our battlefield
Our soul’s our only gun
Peat bog soldiers
Peat bog soldiers
Peat bog soldiers
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 256872CP
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