Is it your business what King Herod does?
Otherwise, Im justthe guy who occupies ground. They land me in planes from the
airand they shoot me up to the front in trucks and scout cars
DISMAS: My pockets empty and my rags are bare.
SOLDIER: See they are carried outl No other guests! Something is full of change and
sparkling stars. But we still need telephones andinstallations.
I lay awhile in sleepAnd a voice said to me,
Gloria, gloria,Gloria in excelsis deo. My mother was a tin Lizzie and my father was
a jackrabbit.
I can remember her when she was merry,A long time
since.
WIFE: Do you not see, because I see at
last?
They follow the poor shepherds to the stable. Just
a few of the skills and services thatgo to the making of an army.
Her fathers dead, her brothers in the hills,And yet
she used to be a merry child. DISMAS: My pockets empty and my rags are bare. Fires a
ninety-five pound shell nearly fifteen miles. ExpectNor fruit nor blossom from a
barren bough. During the last eight hours the grouphas advanced sixty-three
miles.
Otherwise, its rather like anyexecutive
office.
They land me in planes from the airand they shoot
me up to the front in trucks and scout cars . I lay awhile in sleepAnd a voice said
to me, Gloria, gloria,Gloria in excelsis deo. We wouldnt employ a surgeon whod never
donean appendectomy. SOLDIER: You understand plain Latin, dont you? For there was no
chamberAnd there was no room. NARRATOR: Well, anyhow, it sounds like a nice, easy
detail.
You have to sing rebellious songsAbout King
Herod!
Not with those men whose voices you can hear,Voices
of death and iron.
For there was no chamberAnd there was no
room.
SERGEANT: Hell, they dont want to be swore
in!
LEAH: Now, mistress, mistress, tis my fault not
yours.
LEAH: Now, mistress, mistress, tis my fault not
yours.
All rooms at the disposal of the prefect! Well,
weve gota job to do and I guess we mean to do it. They did not even look at me or
pauseThough theres no other inn. The people were going to talk to dontalways get
their names in the papers. INNKEEPER: If there was any fault, wife, it was mine. The
faster youcan get the wounded out, the better chance theyve got. They did not even
look at me or pauseThough theres no other inn. WIFE: I know that, somehow,
kingsShould not be wicked and grind down the people.
For the first time inhistory, we raised a draft
army before war fell on us.