Mexico,The Great War, The Second One two,
Warrior enthusiasm came shining though,
A fervent belief that life goes on,
Dying in battle not your swan song.
His father a lawyer a Virginia man,
His mother a southern Californian,
In California Patton was born,
In 1885 he gave his first yawn.
A fanatical student of tactical war,
All the great soldiers he studied with awe,
Dyslexia didn't stop him learning the lot,
Enthusiasm overcoming what nature forgot.
A leader must be acclaimed by one and all,
Victorious, glorious, standing tall,
A little shy by nature ,somewhat withdrawn,
But the battlefield he advanced with pistols drawn,
Off the front foot every time,
After Pancho Villa, he started his climb,
But Pancho was an artist at hide and seek,
Chances of capture extremely bleak.
The First World War,he next addressed,
Where tank tactics,he quickly assessed,
Into battle with his own command,
Walking then riding across open land.
Old Blood and Guts became his name,
With disciplined tactics he rose to fame,
Wounded badly in the field that day,
Stretcher men took him to the medical bay.
But victory it was, his tanks attained,
As hero of the tanks the press acclaimed,
Not long after the war came to its end,
In peacefull years more knowledge he gained.
But a longing for war,his thoughts retained,
Glory in action his motifs were aimed,
Dissapointed by peacefull times,
He thought his career was in decline.
But shortly after Pearl Harbors attack,
Germans and Italians made a pact,
Declaring war on the USA,
Regretting it bitterly one fine day.
So Operation Torch came about,
Fedala and Morocco put to rout,
The Vichy Fench conceading defeat,
Pattons ambitions becoming complete
After Fredendall's mess at the Kasserine Pass,
Another star he was to flash,
A three star general he had become,
A life times ambition nearly done.
From Bastoigne to Berlin like a man possessed,
The German army he most surely addressed,
Eventully getting the top rank he deserved,
And a place in history most surely reserved.
A motoring accident in 45'
His weakened body could not survive,
Buried at Hamm in Luxembourgh,
A greater General, you've never heard.
