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'Buy A Poppy'


Tuesday 30th October 2012



Buy A Poppy, the PoemIn 1984, a local man wrote a poem encouraging people to think about the horrors of war and of buying a poppy.

Glyndwr Evans
(below) worked at Arkwright pit after moving here from Wales and still lives just outside Chesterfield at the age of 83.

The poem, "Buy A Poppy", won a national award from The Coal Board 28 years ago and his daughter Susan Overton contacted us to see if, as we approach Remembrance Day 2012, we would publish it once more in tribute.

In 1984, Glyndwr Evans, a local man wrote a poem encouraging people to think about the horrors of war and of buying a poppy.

We are proud to publish it in full below, many thanks to Glyndwr and Susan.

Please feel free to print the poem off and put up in your homes or workplace - please spread the word!

Buy A Poppy - Glyndwr Evans.  Will you buy a poppy, Sir, Will you wear it well? For you will hear a band sir, Not a screaming shell. It’s good to hear you’re well sir, And feeling in the pink, Two minutes isn’t very long, To close your eyes, and think. When I was small I’d say, “Oh my, I think that man is going to cry” Will you buy a poppy, Sir, Will you wear it proud? For you will hear the children sing, Not orders barked out loud, “Fix those bayonets, off you go, And if you don’t come back, There’s plenty more to follow you, Bob and Bill and Jack”. Full grown men begin to cry, Ioften used to wonder why.  Will you buy a poppy, Sir? Tonight there’ll be a dance, By kind permission of the men, Who fought and died, in France “Keep on going, though it’s been, A fortnight since you slept, Forget the loved ones left behind, Forget your mother wept” Forget? We shan’t, now I know why, It’s natural, to start to cry. Will you buy a poppy, Sir, Will you give me twenty-pence? Wars are gory scenes of Hell, It makes such little sense To hear of lads of tender years, Lying stiff and cold, What comfort can it give to say, “They shall not grow old”? For them we grieve and mourn and cry, As on Deaths lonely field, they lie.  Will you buy a poppy, Sir Now that it’s November? And more important, may I ask, “Sir, will you remember?” We see our children play and laugh, We watch them as they grow, We remember and we bless, The men who made it so. “Will you pray sir, will you cry?” Yes sir, yes sir, so will I. Will you buy a poppy, Sir? The band made such a row, But now, they’re going home sir, Things are quiet now. The politicians, they knew best, And they had their way, Please Sir, buy this poppy, Sir Just one left on my tray, Then I’ll go home soon, by and by, Perhaps to think, perhaps to cry.

Please feel free to print the poem off and put up in your homes or workplace - please spread the word!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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