From the recording War Stories
Christmas Day 1944 is based on K Company, who fought during the holiday time period in Verdenne and in the Battle of the Bulge. While attending church services, eating Christmas cookies or whatever else was going on, Company K maintained a fighting presence against German Soldiers advancing through the forest.
Lyrics
Christmas Day 1944
Christmas wishes passed around
Wounded soldiers hunker down
We check on one of our guys
The surgeons removed his eye
Soldiers post with frozen feet
Midnight Mass is just the treat
The warmth goes right thru our skin
Homesickness quickly sets in
Let's not talk about the war
It's Christmas Day 1944
Mortars knock us on our backs
Medics dying from attacks
The trench gets hit by a shell
Our troops are screaming like hell
Let's not talk about the war
It's Christmas Day 1944
Let's not talk about the war
It's Christmas Day 1944