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WWI : Sting's Children's Crusade
1985: Sting sort son premier album solo, "The Dream of The Blue Turtles", avec plusieurs chansons contre la guerre, dont Russians et Children's Crusade . Children's Crusade : 2 générations perdues, celle de la Grande Guerre, mais aussi une autre...plus récente.1914 et 1984..." Poppies for young men" ....
Voir Russians pour l'histoire + récente
http://lhistgeobox.blogspot.fr/2008/09/russians-de-sting-et-un-peu-de.html
http://a400.idata.over-blog.com/5/03/13/54/histoire/HDA-Russians.jpg
"Children's Crusade"
Young men, soldiers, Nineteen Fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
All for a Children's Crusade
Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation
Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a Children's Crusade
The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation
Midnight in Soho, Nineteen Eighty-four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a Children's CrusadeContient des pistes pour une séquence avec cette chanson + poèmes+ film
Tags : Sting, war, children's crusade, WWI