Robert Dorman
75th division
Canadian Expeditionary Force
VERSE AND WORSE BY R.O. (BOB) DORMAN
THE YPRES MENNEN ROAD
I have travelled France from east to west
And thought it very fine
Waded in mud knee deep with the rest
Of the boys in the old front line
I did not mind the tramp’s in mud
Nor my pack which was such a load
But I hated one place it smelled of blood
T’was the Ypres Mennen road
But we had to tramp it to reach our line
In weather rough or fair
And many a comrade we left behind
Cause the enemy did not spare
man or beast you were all the same
Whether you walked or rode
As every shell bore someone’s name
That hit the Ypres Mennen road
So I cursed that road both night and day
In my billet on up the line
And every night I used to pray
For Fritz to give me mine
I was getting you know a bit fed up
That’s why I wanted to be na-pooed
So I would never again see pack and mud
And the Ypres Mennin road
Now I need not worry any more
I’m away from all the strife
And landed safe on England’s shore
T’is the happiest day of my life
I have said good bye to mud and slime
And to my pack which was such a load
But I thank the Lord ’cause I got mine
On the Ypres Mennen road
Bio of Robert Osborne Dorman b Montreal Quebec 1900 enlisted CEF 1914
Poem 1The Argument
Poem 2 A Parody When You Play in the Game of War
Poem 3 England
Poem 4 Somewhere
Poem 5 Dirty
Poem 6 When All the Guns are Roaring
Poem 7 The Ypres-Mennen Road
Poem 8 Just a Little Bit of Shrapnel