VERSE 1
Ambling madly all over the town
The call to arms you likened to a whisper
I likened to a radio.
You were a brickbat, a bowery tough,
So rough they culled you from a cartoon.
Pulled out of your pantaloons.
CHORUS
But you, my brother in arms,
I d rather I d lose my limbs than let you come to harm.
But you, my bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.
But I have never felt so much light
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battlefield.
Our rifles blaze away.
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh
VERSE 2
Corporal Bradley of regiment five
In proud array, standing by the bathing
Soldiers and the stevedores.
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies
Cradled in our dungarees.
CHORUS
But you, my brother in arms,
I d rather I d lose my limbs than let you come to harm.
But you, my bombazine doll
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.
But I have never felt so much light
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battlefield.
Our rifles blaze away.
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh
OUTRO
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh Oh
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh