After Blenheim

It was the English that put the French to rout;

But what they kill'd each other for,

I could not well make out;

But ev'rybody said, you see,

That 'twas a famous victory.

With fire and sword the country round

was wasted far and wide,

And many a childing mother then

And newborn baby died.

But things like that, you know, must be

At ev'ry famous victory.

They say it was a shocking sight

After the field was won;

For many thousand bodies here

Lay rotting in the sun;

But things like that, you know, must be

After a famous victory.

And ev'rybody praised the Duke

Who this great fight did win

But what good came of it at last

Quoth the fallen's kin:

Why that I cannot tell, you see,

But 'twas a very famous victory.