Chorus You think about war, we... are all at peace × 3 You think about the fight, we don't need to do it On a beautiful summer day Under an azure blue sky the bugle has sounded For the big adventure They went to war In the name of the fatherland They were young and proud and the flower in the rifle It was the great war They went through hell It was the great war Killing Madness But from the ladies' path At the fort of Douaumont, they lost their soul Under the fire of the cannons With fear in my stomach They were singing the Madelon In the middle of December When they went up to the front It was the great war They went through hell It was the great war Killing Madness They fell one by one Mowed down by grapeshot From the Marne to Verdun In the heart of the battle Bomb holes everywhere Shell holes everywhere Like the end of a world who fell on them It was the great war IS They've been through hell It was the great war Murderous Madness They wept for joy on armistice day When finally arrived The end of their torment After a long silence The bells of peace in the skies of France began to ring It was the great war It was the last of the ders But this great war Wasn't the last