DIGGING - A SONG OF THE SPADE Alan Patrick Herbert.

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DIGGING - A SONG OF THE SPADE Alan Patrick Herbert

Digging: a Song of the Spade Alan Herbert wrote this poem at Gallipoli to describe digging trenches at night The soldiers dug on dark nights, before the moon came up, so that they would not be seen and shot at by the enemy The ‘speaker’ in the poem, like many at Gallipoli, has worked peacetime as a miner on Tyneside in north-east England. Herbert wrote the poem in the style of Thomas Hood’s ‘Song of the Shirt‘. Hood wrote the poem as a protest about working conditions in factories ‘strays’ in the first verse are stray artillery shells the trenches were often given the name of a street or road: Mercer Street was the name of a trench

A Song of the Spade ‘I sometimes think this war should go down in history as the War of Spades…..I once heard a woman name forty six things she could do with a hairpin. It was a poor soldier that couldn’t do sixty four with a spade after a month in Gallipoli.’ Captain Albert Mure, Royal Scots, 29 th Division

Digging: a Song of the Spade With heavy sleepless eyes, With faces starved and drawn, Some soldiers stood in a dreary ditch And dug before the dawn: Dig-dig-dig, And around the barricade, While the bullfrogs croaked in the gully-bed And the ‘strays’ went whispering overhead They sang the Song of the Spade.

Digging: a Song of the Spade (edited) Dig-dig-dig, Ever a job to do. The mules must walk in a covered track. ‘The officer’ needs a nice new shack. The parapet here is much too thin The general’s roof is falling in And somebody wants a hundred men Up the gully tonight at ten And a hundred more at two.

Digging: a Song of the Spade (edited) Dig-dig-dig, And underneath the stones, Dig-dig-dig, You find a Frenchman’s bones. Pick and shovel and sand, Shovel and sand and pick, Cover him there for a little yet, Man must sleep where his tomb is set. Quick, lad, cover him quick.

Digging: a Song of the Spade (edited) Dig-dig-dig, Dig in the dark out there. Less noise somebody! God what’s that? Only the feet of a frightened rat. Dig, and be done before the moon. Dig, for the Turk will spot you soon! Lie down, you fools, a flare!

Digging: a Song of the Spade (edited) Dig-dig-dig, One of the section dead. Dig-dig-dig, For we must make his bed: Pick and shovel and sand, Shovel and sand and pick, Oh God, to think it was for this, I learned the pitman’s trick.

Digging: a Song of the Spade With heavy sleepless eyes, With faces starved and drawn, Some soldiers stood in a dreary ditch And dug before the dawn: Dig-dig-dig, And around the the barricade, While the bullfrogs croaked in the gully-bed And the ‘strays’ went whispering overhead They sang the Song of the Spade.

Reference Mure, Albert (1919) With the Incomparable 29 th London: W&R Chambers