Lieutenant Gitz Rice’s World War I trench song Oh my! I don't want to die, I want to go home. Content by Robert J. Ballantyne Posted on July 25, 2020 Heather Robertson’s 1977 book, ‘A Terrible beauty: the art of Canada at war’ Cover art I want to go home, I want to go home,I don’t want to go in the trenches no more,Where whizz-bangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar.Take me over the seaWhere the Alleyman can’t get at me.Oh my! I don’t want to die,I want to go home.Gitz Rice, “I Don’t Want to Die”, 1915 Reference Robertson, H. (1977). A Terrible beauty: the art of Canada at war. J. Lorimer, p. 47. Related topics Conflict and Peace    History education    World War I