Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today
Keeps fit, doing his bit, up to his eyes in clay
Each night, after a fight, to pass the time along
He’s got a little gramophone that plays this song
Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don’t care
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me
Bill Spry started to fly up in an aeroplane
In France, taking a chance, wished he was down again
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yelled out to Pilot Brown
“Steady a bit, ya fool, you’re turning me upside down”
Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don’t care
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me
Jock Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne
“Look, chum, apple and plum, it’s apple and plum again
Same stuff, isn’t it rough, fed up with it I am
Oh, for a pot of Aunt Eliza’s raspberry jam”
Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don’t care
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me
One day, Mickey O’Shea stood in a trench somewhere
So brave, having a shave and trying to part his hair
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite
“Talk of the Crystal Palace on a firework night”
Take me back to dear old Blighty
Put me on the train for London Town
Take me over there, drop me anywhere
Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester, well, I don’t care
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon shall be (Whoa!)
Tiddley-iddley-ighty, hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me
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