War Wounds

Join up and enlist Kitchener said, the Army will be such fun For King and country, make your mother proud son. However life at the minute, it ain't that good I've stood on a mine, losing lots of blood. I've pins and needles now, feeling rather faint I need urgent help or my prospects ain't exactly great. help arriving now, trying to stop the bloody flow off to the field hospital now; lets Go Go Go! Fly me home please into the arms of my lover if I'm back at home I know that I'll recover. Time for me to leave now, time to say goodbye homeward bound tomorrow it's time for me to fly. My comrades aren't so lucky, tomorrow they're going 'over the top' they won't be able to turn back, they won't be able to stop. I may now only have one leg, but I'm the lucky one tomorrow I won't be staring down the barrel of a gun.