Corporal Chalkie

lying in bed with my girl from sussex

reading the writings of a man from kent

and the earth in the garden gets blacker

just another war we say

i'm the man from surrey with a ground floor flat

and i know what happened before i was born

the huns and the nips got uppy with blighty

and tommy went out and beat them all home

running for breakfast with my call up forms

seeing the sniper and the bullets in my arms

and the great big bloke from platoon thirty two

is calling me a poof and a stream of number two