ON THE BATTLE GROUND

 

Soldiers stand in contemplation

Young faces etched in concentration

NCO’s keep them holding steady

 

A mounted officer comes prancing

Upon his steed nervously dancing

Then comes the order to be ready

 

Nervously awaiting engagement

Standing firm for the regiment

Then artillery is exchanged

 

Just stand fast and hold the line

Just do that lads and all is fine

Then the bugles tune is changed

 

The air fills with acrid smoke

And men must stand and choke

After the muskets flash

 

Across the open ground

The heavy horse’s pound

And then the sabres clash

 

The lancers Bodies tumble

As the legs of horses crumple

And lie on the battleground

 

Wounded cut and bleeding

Their Precious life receding

The lucky die without a sound

 

Remember the fallen brothers

Dying for you and others

Remember the forgotten

 

On foreign fields they lay

Buried deep beneath the clay

Remember the forgotten

 

Remember the forgotten

Beneath the earth and rotten

They’re heroes one and all

 

So tell the valiant story

Let us remember them in glory

For those who stand and fall