Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Amused To Death    7th September 1992

“The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard”    (Waters)
Instrumental

(Alf Razzell)

"Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to
collect the pay books; and when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land."

"I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken
two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call, ‘Hello Razz,
I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here’, and he said 'I'm
feeling bad,' and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained
in England, one of the original battalion.

I had a look at his wound, rolled him over; I could see it was probably
a fatal wound. You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping
with sweat; and after I'd gone about three shell holes, traversed that,
had it been...had there been a path or a road I could have done better.

He pummeled me, 'Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather
die, put me down.'

I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I can't go any further, let me die’.

I said, 'If I leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's have another go.'

He said 'All right then.' And the same thing happened; he couldn't stand
it anymore, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land."

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(Girl) "I don't mind about the war, that's one of the things I like to watch, if it's a war going on, 'cause then I know if our side's winning,
if our side's losing..."

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