44 years he had served
\nIMBER well
\nThe village blacksmith
\nThe happiest spell
\nHe worked long and hard
\nAnd built up his trade
\nServing the community
\nWhen the war Office laid<\/p>\n
Their objections to
\nHis village and that he leave
\nThey wanted to train soldiers
\nAnd to achieve
\nA secret location
\nWhich is what they did
\nAnd the village was vacated
\nIn what was a bid<\/p>\n
Just fifty souls there
\nSo easy to say
\nYou have to give up
\nWhat you\u2019ve built
\nGo away
\nWe need the homes for serviceman who
\nAre coming to help win the war
\nYes for you<\/p>\n
That was the story
\nAnd they had to go
\nLeave all their possessions
\nGo with the flow
\nPoor Albert Nash
\nHis heart broken to leave
\nHe died on his forge
\nHe just couldn\u2019t believe<\/p>\n
What he had worked all his life for
\nShould now be lost
\nHis wife Martha knew
\nReally what it had cost
\nOn his death certificate
\nA broken heart
\nThat\u2019s what had Happened
\nHe just could\u2019t part<\/p>\n
With his home and his business
\nHow was it fair
\nWho were the War Office
\nGrey suits who dare
\nTo come to a village
\nSteeped in history
\nAnd tell all its people
\nThat they couldn\u2019t be<\/p>\n
Allowed to live where
\nThey had put down their roots
\nTheir obtuseness and oafishness
\nClearly all brutes
\nWere heartless and moronic
\nTo expect people to
\nJust get out of their homes
\nWhilst others could do<\/p>\n
What they liked with their cottages
\nHow was it fair
\nAnd they never came back
\nThe WAR office declare
\nThe village is theirs
\nIMBER will be
\nA place where we train
\nOur bold infantry<\/p>\n
We must think of poor Albert
\nHis soul no doubt will
\nBe out and about
\nPossibly still
\nWhat the War Office did
\nWas rigid and wrong
\nUnsentimental they didn\u2019t belong
\nInsensate and callous
\nIn so many ways
\nShameless and brazen
\nAll of their days<\/p>\n
Ghosts of those
\nNo doubt still wander the ways
\nThe army demolished a lot
\nJust a phase
\nTo get rid of the memories
\nBut people\u2019s thoughts
\nAre stronger than War Office\u2019s
\nRotten reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
44 years he had served IMBER well The village blacksmith The happiest spell He worked long and hard And built up his trade Serving the community When the war Office laid Their objections to His village and that he leave … Continue reading