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  Probably unknown to most of you but Reg Meuross is a brilliant singer/songwriter broadly in the folk tradition. Today brings to mind one of my favourite songs of his. So poignant and again looking at things from a different perspective. I'm sure Reg will forgive me for cutting and pasting from his own site. The song is well worth a listen musically in addition to the heart-rending lyrics.
  
  I wrote this song 'And Jesus Wept' about Harry Farr - a WW1 Soldier who was shot for 'desertion' and finally received a pardon 90 years after his death. His trial had lasted 20 minutes. His family had always argued that Harry was suffering from shell shock and should have been hospitalised or sent home but instead was executed for cowardice.
  
  the moon is slowly sinking the final moon i’ll see
  my head is tired of thinking there’s just the rosary
  an empty place at table and my mother’s eyes are wet
  the hand of god came down last night
  and jesus wept
  
  if i’d been a captain they would have sent me home
  but i am just a private condemned to die alone
  the firing squad’s been drinking it’s a dawn they won’t forget
  the hand of god came down last night
  and jesus wept
  
  sound the drum for their young precious years
  but no glory will shine on my poor mother’s tears
  
  a soldier’s good for fighting that’s what my father said
  and if the man’s not fighting he might as well be dead
  shame has drawn the curtains and the neighbours won’t forget
  the hand of god came down last night
  and jesus wept
  
  i got the shakes on tuesday i cannot go i said
  they sent me down on wednesday by thursday i was dead
  i fought for king and country 2 years without regret
  the hand of god came down last night
  and jesus wept
  
  we all fall in the cause of the free
  when the sun sets on england will you think of me?
  
  in unmarked graves in flanders lie 300 boys and men
  killed un-loved and frightened by those they thought were friends
  a nation’s guilty secret is this generation’s debt
  the hand of god came down last night
  and jesus wept
  
  regmeuross.com[/I]

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