| C | Gsus | C | |
| It was j | ust before dawn one m | iserable morning in | black forty-four |
| C | |
| When the forward commander was told to sit tight, |
| F/C | C | |
| When they asked that his | men be with | drawn |
| C | |
| And the generals gave thanks, as the other ranks |
| Gsus | C | |
| Held back the enemy t | anks for a while |
| C | Gsus | |
| And the | Anzio Bridgehead was | held for the price |
| C | |
| Of a | few hundred ordinary lives |
| C | G | C | G | |
| And kind old King | George sent Mother a | note when he heard that | Father was gone |
| C | G | C | |
| It was, I re | call, in the form of a | scroll with gold leaf and all |
| C | |
| And I found it one day in a drawer of old photographs hidden away |
| C | Gsus | |
| And my eyes still grow damp to re | member |
| C | |
| His Majesty | signed with his own rubber stamp |
| C | G | C | |
| It was dark all a | round, there was frost on the | ground |
| G | |
| When the Tigers broke | free |
| C | |
| And no-one survived from the Royal Fusiliers, Company "C" |
| G | C | G | C | |
| They were all left be | hind, most of them | dead - the rest of them | dying |
| C | G | C | |
| And that's how the | high command took my | daddy from me |