Roger Waters The Ballad of Bill Hubbard Lyrics:
(switch channels) [Alf Razzell:] "Two things
that have haunted me most are the days when I had
to collect the paybooks; and when I left Bill
Hubbard in no-man's-land. I was picked up and
taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken
two or three steps down the trench when I heard,
"Ho Hello Razz, I'm glad to see you! This is
my second night here,", he said "I'm
feeling bad." And it was Bill Hubbard, one of
the men we'd trained in England, one of the
original battalion. I had a look at his wound;
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rolled him over and I could see it was probably a
fatal wound. You could imagine what pain he was
in, he was dripping with sweat; and after I'd gone
about three shellholes, traversed that, had it
been...had there been a path or a road I could
have done better. He pummelled me, 'Put me down,
put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put
me down.' I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I
can't go any further, let me die.' I said 'If I
leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's have
another go.' He said 'All right then.' And the s
ame thing happened. he couldn't stand it any more,
and I had to leave him there, in
no-man's-land." (switch channels)
Lyrics: The Ballad of Bill Hubbard, Roger Waters [end]