Pillars Of Fire (The Battle Of Messines)

It were the good tunnels - 26 ways of doom

One million pounds of ammonal

Were packed into the underground pits

Our artillery, was silenced, for the first time in years, all was quiet

The sky was a very dark blue in the pre-dawn light

And I swear we heard how the nightingale sings

3 A.M. 7th June

We demolished the bottom of Messines

Trigger down, torn apart by the whirlpool of flame

Nineteen explosions, 10, 000 were killed, colonel said

The boches were stunned, dazed and horror-stricken

If they were not killed outright

Many of them lay dead in the great craters opened

By the mines secretly planted by the Moles

Better the devil you know, than the devil you don't

And I swear we heard how the nightingale sings

3 A.M. 7th June

We demolished the bottom of Messines

Trigger down, torn apart by the whirlpool of flame

10, 000 were killed, colonel said

It were the good tunnels