The Lads Who Fought & Won

That Serbian man

Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand

With what would transpire

Would change the world

And set Europe afire

On one side the Czar and the King

And on the other stood

The Kaiser and Ottoman thang

The boys and the men and the girls

Were armed and mobilized

Their forces aligned

They crawled through the mud

And they cut through the wire

A constant assault of artillery fire

The curtain of shrapnel

Took the flesh from the bone

They fell in the field

And never got home

They were the lads

Who fought and won

Up over the bridge

A heavy fortress lies

Atop of the ridge

Bristling with guns

Austro-Hungarian Empire dug in

They fought through the night

Like the devil at dawn

The enemy captured

Or dead on the ground

It wasn't achieved without terrible loss

Posthumous award of Victoria Cross

They were the lads

Who fought and won