Source: Horntip Collection - Half-Mind Hymnal 2011

Lyrics

I wish I knew the history of this song.It doesn’t have the standard American military mix of optimism and cynicism, so I suspect it originated in another country, maybe Germany or England

We stand ‘neath resounding rafters, The walls around are bare. They echo back our laughter, Seems that the dead are all there.

CHORUS: Stand to your glasses steady, This world is a world of lies. Here’s a health to the dead already, Hurrah for the next man to die.

Denied by the land that bore us, Betrayed by the ones we held dear. The good have all gone before us, To show where our comrades have gone.

In flaming Spad and Camel, With wings of wood and steel. For mortal stakes we gamble, With cards that were stacked for the deal.