God bless you Harry
Patch
The last British Tommy
to fall
Jack, Jill and Maudie
are waiting
Can you hear that
distant bugle call?
The serried ranks
stand cheering
Calling you to glory
Harry
Calling you to reassemble
You must go now no
time to tarry
Jack, Jill and Maudie
Allen
Are waiting to greet
you proudly
Goodbye Harry so long
old friend
Can you hear the bugle
calling loudly?
Come to the cookhouse
door boys
Come to the cookhouse
door
Oh fallen heroes, oh
hearty lads
I fear we will see
your like no more
Jack, Jill and Maudie
Allen where the nicknames of Harry Patch’s Lewis machine gun crew who were
killed by shell fire on Pilkem Ridge, Passchendaele, Belgium in 1917
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