Belleau Wood
Performed by Garth Brooks
About WW1 Christmas Eve
- about 100,000 British and German troops were involved.
- allowed going into No Man's Land to do proper burials
- even gave each other food, alcohol, and souvenirs such as buttons.
- most truce lasted through Christmas and some through New Years
Belleau Wood
Oh the snow flakes fell in silence
Over Belleau Wood that night
For a Christmas truce had been declared
By both sides of the fight
As we laid there in our trenches
The silence broke in two
By a German soldier singing
A song that we all knew
Though I did not know the language
The song was Silent Night
Then I heard my buddy whisper
"All is calm, all is bright"
Then the fear and doubt surrounded me
Cause I'd die if I was wrong
But I stood up in my trench
And I began to sing along
based on a letter written by an unkown British soldier and the experience of the Christmas truce in 1914.