SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Sting lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Sting Lyrics for Song: Children's Crusade Lyrics for Album: The Dream Of The Blue Turtles [1985] 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 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 the blood of a whole generation Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four Fixing in doorways, opium slaves Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade All of those young lives betrayed All for a children's crusade Album Lyrics: The Dream Of The Blue Turtles [1985] Sting "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles [1985]" 1. Love Is The Seventh Wave 2. Children's Crusade 3. Shadows In The Rain 4. Consider Me Gone 5. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 6. Moon Over Bourbon Street