Think I have it right
Paint the map light blue today
Look out Spain I’m on my way
With eyes that know that Belgium soon will fall
Shadows on the hills
German boots on daffodils
Trample vineyards and windmills in conquest of
My sweet Alsace-Loraine

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you didn’t want that dmz
How you needed that sc
I would not listen, I did not know how
Perhaps, I'll listen now

So much for tonight
Flaming fires that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds of smoking haze
Reflect in France’s eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Black troops marching on the plains
“Deustchland Uber Alles” their refrain
serenaded as we make our final stand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you didn’t want that dmz
How you needed that sc
I would not listen, I did not know how
Perhaps, I'll listen now
For I could not fool you
your strategy was true
And when no hope was left inside
on that starry, starry night
You made that stab as Germans often do
Saying “I could have told you, Frenchman
This map was never meant
for one as beautiful as you.”

I thought I had it right
plans for conquest, rise and fall
dossiers, reports and all
With eyes toward all the sc’s I would get
Like the players that I've met
Like Silver Wolf and Stratagos,
Like BESM, but here I go
I’m crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you didn’t want that dmz
How you needed that sc,
I would not listen, I’m not listening still
Perhaps, I never will...