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Lyrics
The Canadian Guns
Open out, open out, duggle through the dark.
Oh, you Canadian boys, you hear the bullet sing.
Ready with the bayonets and steady on the mark.
We’re up against no simple sort of thing.
Oh, it’s hell at loose and ticking, and it’s paradise for mines.
But they charged us in the darkness, and they nearly broke our line.
But we haven’t time to worry, if we fall, by God we fall.
When the folk at home are watching, from Winnipeg to Montréal.
Charge again the Maple Leaf, charge them with a cheer, for the guns, our guns, they are waiting in the rear.
Oh, huckle with the bayonets, we need to do them proud.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.
Open out, open out, someone’s falling out.
Oh, you Canadian boys, you mustn’t die alone.
Give them steel and give them the hot charge, and write about, show them that they cannot hold their own.
Oh, their bullets creep about us, like the hail that blinds the heavens.
But we take a heap of stuffing, they have got our 4.7.
And our fighting blood is boiling, they can never hold their ground.
When the folk at home are watching, from Montréal to the town.
Charge again the Maple Leaf, charge them with will, for the guns, our guns, they are somewhere on the hill.
Oh, huckle with the bayonets, we need to do them proud.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.
Back again, back again, we have got the guns.
Oh, you German boys, you’ve got it strong and hot.
One from the enemy, run them from the hunt.
You’ve heard Willie’s army on the spot.
Oh, we’ve got the square heads running, and you bet the sport was fine.
But they’re saying in the trenches, that we’ve saved the British line.
Though we think of shucks about it, we are glad of that by heck.
For the folk at home were watching, from Vancouver to Quebec.
Peace attacks the Maple Leaf, we have won the plane, and the guns, our guns, they are safe with us again.
We huckle with the bayonets, by God, we did them proud.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.
There’s a big kick coming from the Canada crowd.