Keep your head out of the way Dai Jones, the parapet is low,
We've need of men to celebrate when the time comes yet to go.
Keep your shoulders down and careful Dai as you're rolling up your f**,
Keep a head to hang your helmet on not a cross to hang your tag.
A butcher from Tregarth you say, did you ever think you'd see
Such a slaughterhouse as this where stand now you and me.
Kneel there safe and don't light up, for there hides a roving eye,
He'll see your smoke as plain as he sees clouds there in the sky.
Ah Davy lad, can I call you that? They say it's nearly done,
One last push will finish them and we'll have to leave the fun.
So watch yourself Dai Richard Jones if you're off to make a brew,
The snipers never sleep they say and we've been overdue.
Careless boy stood to tall to take a last look see,
So sleep in France Dai Jones says I, just when you thought that you were home and free.
You stood too tall and you never saw your name carved on the post
And of all the mothers tears shed it was yours who cried the most.
Careless boy stood too tall to take a last look see,
So sleep in France Dai Jones says I, just when you thought that you were home and free.
We've need of men to celebrate when the time comes yet to go.
Keep your shoulders down and careful Dai as you're rolling up your f**,
Keep a head to hang your helmet on not a cross to hang your tag.
A butcher from Tregarth you say, did you ever think you'd see
Such a slaughterhouse as this where stand now you and me.
Kneel there safe and don't light up, for there hides a roving eye,
He'll see your smoke as plain as he sees clouds there in the sky.
Ah Davy lad, can I call you that? They say it's nearly done,
One last push will finish them and we'll have to leave the fun.
So watch yourself Dai Richard Jones if you're off to make a brew,
The snipers never sleep they say and we've been overdue.
Careless boy stood to tall to take a last look see,
So sleep in France Dai Jones says I, just when you thought that you were home and free.
You stood too tall and you never saw your name carved on the post
And of all the mothers tears shed it was yours who cried the most.
Careless boy stood too tall to take a last look see,
So sleep in France Dai Jones says I, just when you thought that you were home and free.