Motorhead 1916 Song

And i died i never did get any older.

Motorhead 1916 song. This song is composed by lemmy kilmister. There s nobody remembers our names. It came to me in a flash he said. The old guy is 88 all something and he s still in tears about it.

And ten thousand slain and now. And that s how it is for a soldier. 1916 from the album 1916. Motörhead 1916 from 1916 1991 lyrics 16 years old when i went to war to fight for a land fit for heroes god on my side and a gun in my hand counting my days down to zero and i marched.

Motorhead frontman lemmy kilmister wrote this song after watching a uk television program about the 1916 battle of the somme on which a veteran reminisced about his friend dying in his arms with half his face blown off. A music video of motörhead. I don t think there s any other motorhead album with as much variety as 1916. 16 years old when i went to the war to fight for a land fit for heroes god on my side and a gun in my hand chasing my days down to zero and i marched and i fought and i bled.

As sobering as his reflections on the horrors of world war i are on the title song he s unapologetically amusing on going to brazil angel city an ode to the beautiful party people of l a and ramones which salutes the new york punk band.