{"id":213,"date":"2023-06-13T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:11:19","slug":"a-conscientious-objector-sung-by-alfred-lester","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/a-conscientious-objector-sung-by-alfred-lester\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conscientious Objector Sung By Alfred Lester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Conscientious Objector\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuzrL_jgoJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Perhaps you wonder what I am,<br \/>\nI will explain to you,<br \/>\nMy conscience is the only thing,<br \/>\nThat helps to pull me through.<br \/>\nObjection is a thing that I<br \/>\nHave studied thoroughly,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t object to fighting Huns,<br \/>\nBut should hate them fighting me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Non-combatent battalions<br \/>\nAre fairly in my line<br \/>\nBut the sergeant always hates me<br \/>\nAnd he calls me &#8220;Baby mine&#8221;,<br \/>\nBut oh, I got so cross with him<br \/>\nI rose to the attack<br \/>\nAnd when he called me &#8220;Ethel&#8221;<br \/>\nI just called him &#8220;Beatrice&#8221; back!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Send out the Army and The Navy,<br \/>\nSend out the rank and file,<br \/>\nSend out the brave old Territorials<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll face the danger with a smile.<br \/>\nSend out the boys of the Old Brigade<br \/>\nWho made Old England free<br \/>\nSend out me brother, his sister and his mother<br \/>\nBut for Gawd&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t send me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We have a nasty officer,<br \/>\nHe is a horrid brute,<br \/>\nLast Friday he was terse with me<br \/>\n&#8216;Cos I did not salute.<br \/>\nBut I cut him twice today,<br \/>\nThen he asked the reason please?<br \/>\nI said, &#8220;I thought, dear Captain,<br \/>\nThat you still were cross with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Send out the Army and The Navy,<br \/>\nSend out the rank and file,<br \/>\nSend out the brave old Territorials<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll face the danger with a smile.<br \/>\nSend out the boys of the Old Brigade<br \/>\nWho made Old England free<br \/>\nSend out the bakers, and the bloomin&#8217; profit-makers<br \/>\nBut for Gawd&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t send me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you wonder what I am, I will explain to you, My conscience is the only thing, That helps to pull me through. Objection is a thing that I Have studied thoroughly, I don&#8217;t object to fighting Huns, But should hate them fighting me. Non-combatent battalions Are fairly in my line But the sergeant always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}