Surely Not At All

Great people in their prime of life and of old age have died And great people have even committed suicide And the lives of great people we do celebrate But what is the difference between good and great The winners write the war history of the winners what does this say That the winners are great no 'tis not always this way Some victorious war leaders are or were the worst of bad kind And worse mass killers than them would be impossible to find Some of them as heroes did live and some of them as heroes did die But that they were great people and heroes is a damnable lie They ordered the execution of millions of people nothing honourable about that They showed as little sympathy to their victims a shown to a mouse by a cat The war winners write the war history that much we do recall But are all war winners great surely not at all.