Albert and Cyril, Gordan and Jack
Holding Lee Enfields
And sat on their packs
Mates on the flat car coming
Back to the line
Sharing the dregs of the wine

Below the ridge of Messines
The Anzac division is facing the hun
On the wet fields of Flanders
Barely touched by the sun
The soldiers look up at
The church on the ridge
And wonder what's on the far side

Beyond the ridge of Messines
But under the trenches theres
Another war fighting
Sewer rats dig towards
Enemy lines
Once at the coalface but
Now in the army
Packing explosives at
The head of the mine

Field marshal Plumer
Waits for the moment
Carefully planned on
The hill at Cassel
Crouching Battalions
Bayonets fixing
Wait for the barrage of shells

To advance up
The ridge of Messines
Nineteen mines go up
At three in the morning
Earthquake eruption
Heard from afar
Brave Khaki boys
Form lines in the darkness
Through the wire and
Trenches they charge

Up the slopes of
The ridge of Messines
Albert and Gordon share
A pipe in the village
And look to the east
Where the Germans have run
Jack copped a blighty wound
Just as the sun rose
And Cyril will never see home

Killed on the ridge of Messines
He'll stay on the
Ridge of Messines

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