Easy Lads No Need To Run
"Easy lads, no need to run"
The keen young officer called,
"We've shelled the buggers night and day
We must have killed them all."
"The barbed wire's blown apart
Ahead lies victory,
So easy lads, no need to run,
Forwards! follow me."
And follow him the soldiers did
Into the jaws of hell,
To be slaughtered by machine gun
And searing mortar shell.
They died amongst the uncut wire
Still clutching at their guns,
"We must have killed them all," he'd said,
"So easy lads, don't run."
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