Sting & Police - Children's Crusade

Bring On The Night / 1986-07-01 1. Another Day 2. Bring On The Night 3. Children's Crusade 4. Consider Me Gone 5. Demolition Man 6. Driven To Tears 7. I Been Down So Long 8. I Burn For You 9. Love Is The Seventh Wave 10. Low Life 11. Moon Over Bourbon Street 12. One World (Not Three) 13. Tea In The Sahara 14. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 15. We Work The Black Seam 16. When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around

Children's Crusade

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade