The Present Battle-Field Wright Field

in The Stars and Stripes

THE war is over, over there,
And Peace has made her bow—
But the Battle of Verdun is on
At Jenkins’ Corners now!

All’s still along the rippling Somme,
Likewise at Belleau Wood—
But the Jenkins’ Corners Battle now
Is merely going good!

Now beaten into plowshares are
The swords once dripping wet
With human gore—but Heinies fall
At Jenkins’ Corners yet!

The smoke of cannon floats away
In France, a fading cloud—
But the war at Jenkins’ Corners is
Attracting quite a crowd!

Pop Snider had a navvy there,
And old Zeke Wade a son,
And since the boys are home again,
They’ve waded in like fun.

The checker-board is moved away,
A gas-mask takes its place;
The floor is neatly sanded, so
The campaign they may trace.

Pop Snider knows what he’d have done,
And Zekiel has his say
On where they made the great mistake
And nearly lost the day.

They fight it o’er from A to Z,
And slay full many a Hun—
For out at Jenkins’ Corners now
The war is just begun!