Anzio Beach Head Cemetary
And the Generals gave thanks as the other ranks, held back the enemy tanksŃfor awhile.
And the Anzio Bridgehead was held for the price of a few ordinary lives
And kind old King George, sent Mother a note, that he heard that father was gone.
It was I Recall, in the form of a scroll with goldleaf and all.
And I found it one day, in a drawer of old photographs hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp, to remember His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp.
It Was dark all around, there was frost on the ground, when the tigers broke free! And no one survived from the Royal Fusilliers, Company C.
They were all left behind, most of them dead, the rest of them dying.
And thatŐs how the high command took my Daddy from me!