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The Ballad of Waterloo
We saw many a young comrade fall
Smashed to bits by a cannon ball
We could but stand like a human wall
As the deadly roundshot flew
I tell you boys we were damn near done
Standing all day in the hot June sun
Of drinking water there was none
As the deadly roundshot flew
In the evening of that blazing day
We were quickly marched away
From Quatre Bras were many lay
As the deadly roundshot flew
And then the weather sudden changed
As we marched on it rained and rained
We were soaked and sorely pained
As the deadly roundshot flew
All next day we lay in mud
Listening to the scream and thud
And the cracking shells that spilled our blood
As the deadly roundshot flew
And from this hell his thoughts did wrench
He spoke of England and a comely wench
He was forced to leave and fight the French
As the deadly roundshot flew
Then it’s on yer feet and form a square
There’s cavalry charging from over there
Against our bayonets they’d not a prayer
As the deadly roundshot flew
They charged and charged and came again
Met by our musket’s lethal rain
Two thousand men and horses slain
As the deadly roundshot flew
Then rattling drums rent the air
And cries of Vive L'empereur
Chilled the blood of everyone there
As the deadly roundshot flew
We were the scum of Ireland Scotland, Wales
And the sweepings of the English jails
Blessed with a nerve that never fails
As the deadly roundshot flew
Then we faced his Imperial Guard
And drove them backwards yard by yard
With musket bayonet pike and sword
As the deadly roundshot flew
When Bloucher came we won the day
And Napoleon beaten rode away
But a terrible price we’d had to pay
As the deadly roundshot flew
And the very last shot removed his head
Before he falls the man is dead
Now his wench he’ll never wed
Then the roundshot no longer flew
O’er the field of Waterloo me boys
O’er field of Waterloo
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