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."