Ambling madly all over the town The call to arms you likened to a whisper I likened to a radio
You were a brick bat, a Bowery tough, so rough They called you from a cartoon Pulled out of your pantaloons
But you, my brother in arms I'd rather I'd lose my limbs Than let you come to harm
But you, my bombazine doll The bullets may singe your skin And the mortars may fall
But I, I never felt so much life Than tonight huddled in the trenches Gazing on the battlefield Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away
Corporal Bradley of regiment five In proud array standing by the bathing Soldiers and the stevedores
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civvies Cradled in our dungarees
But you, my brother in arms I'd rather I'd lose my limbs Than let you come to harm
But you, my bombazine doll The bullets may singe your skin And the mortars may fall
But I, I never felt so much life Than tonight, huddled in the trenches Gazing on the battle field Our rifles blaze away, we blaze away We blaze away, we blaze away