Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Lads Who Fought & Won, artist - The Real McKenzies. Album song Off the Leash, in the genre ПанкDate of issue: 04.08.2008
Record label: Fat Wreck Chords
Song language: English
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 |