Belsen Was A Gas

Album: The Great Rock And Roll Swindle (1979)
  • Belsen was a gas, I heard the other day
    In the open graves where the Jews all lay
    Life is fun and I wish you were here
    They wrote on postcards to those held dear
    Oh dear

    Sergeant majors on the march
    Wash the bodies in the starch
    See them all die one by one
    Guess it's dead, guess it's glad
    So bad

    Belsen was a gas, I heard the other day
    In the open graves where the Jews all lay
    Life is fun and I wish you were here
    They wrote on postcards to those held dear
    Oh dear

    Be a man

    Be a man, Belsen was a gas
    Be a man, kill someone kill yourself
    Be a man, be someone kill someone
    Be a man kill yourself

    Writer/s: John Lydon, Paul Thomas Cook, Sid Vicious, Stephen Philip Jones
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Anonymous"There were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen. In fact, only 7 Nazi camps had them out of the hundreds. The deaths at Bergen-Belsen were mostly due to a massive epidemic of typhus, starvation, other diseases, exhaustion and other forms of execution (beating, gunshot, etc.)"

    And? That somehow makes Bergen-Belsen better?
  • Mike from Clinton, MaThere were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen. In fact, only 7 Nazi camps had them out of the hundreds. The deaths at Bergen-Belsen were mostly due to a massive epidemic of typhus, starvation, other diseases, exhaustion and other forms of execution (beating, gunshot, etc.)
  • Frank from Morenci , Aznot one of my favorite Sex Pistol Songs...Never Mind the Bollocks is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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