In Flanders fields grow poppies red Stained by the blood of the youth now dead Some who then could barely read nor write But still marched bravely to the fight They did not understand For them the countries call to arms Meant boys so young must meet demands And for many that meant death And others then did come to fill the spaces Left by those now gone And in their turn they also shed their blood In their turn died screaming in liquid mud As they died the blood they shed Was the food on which the poppies fed Poppies growing on Flanders fields Flanders poppies, deepest red