Well, this song and "Green Fields of France" (actual title "No Man's Land" do go rather well together, since they were written by the same man - Eric Bogle, a Scot who now lives in Australia.
Bogle's original lyric says "arse over head", which rhymes, and "rained us with bullets and showered us with shell", which scans better (and "shell" is a correct usage of the word, and it rhymes...)
Well, this song and "Green Fields of France" (actual title "No Man's Land" do go rather well together, since they were written by the same man - Eric Bogle, a Scot who now lives in Australia.
Bogle's original lyric says "arse over head", which rhymes, and "rained us with bullets and showered us with shell", which scans better (and "shell" is a correct usage of the word, and it rhymes...)