1914 - Corps d’autos-canons-mitrailleuses (A.C.M) lyrics
[1914 - Corps d’autos-canons-mitrailleuses A.C.M lyrics]
Life as a gift, our life as a present from
King Albert to Tsar Nikolai
Now the ship is sailing to
The shore of Archangel
We move down to the Peterhof
Russia meets us with the solemn march
And soon we moved on to the Zbarazh
Ozerna and Tarnopol
We entered the war in Galizia
We entered the war
Hold the line, Minerva will cover us
The Hotchkiss machine gun poured
Lead in all directions
Send our messages to all boches -
We will avenge for the Belgium!
16 of us were killed in action
16 of us in this Galizian sludge
They called home
After two years we've left
This squalid place we moved to Kyiv
But the bolsheviks banished us and
We destroyed our cars
To prevent their capture and chose
The highest way back home
Along the trans-Siberian railway to
China and Vladivostok
On the ship "Sheridan" we sailed
To the United States
In San Francisco they treated us like heroes
From Sacramento to Salt Lake City, Chicago
Detroit and New York
Finally we're returning to
France just months before the War was ended
Hello again, our lovely
Belgium wederom hallo, ons mooie België
Hold the line, Minerva will cover us
The Hotchkiss machine gun poured
Lead in all directions
Send our messages to all boches -
We will avenge for the Belgium!
King Albert to Tsar Nikolai
Now the ship is sailing to
The shore of Archangel
We move down to the Peterhof
Russia meets us with the solemn march
And soon we moved on to the Zbarazh
Ozerna and Tarnopol
We entered the war in Galizia
We entered the war
Hold the line, Minerva will cover us
The Hotchkiss machine gun poured
Lead in all directions
Send our messages to all boches -
We will avenge for the Belgium!
16 of us were killed in action
16 of us in this Galizian sludge
They called home
After two years we've left
This squalid place we moved to Kyiv
But the bolsheviks banished us and
We destroyed our cars
To prevent their capture and chose
The highest way back home
Along the trans-Siberian railway to
China and Vladivostok
On the ship "Sheridan" we sailed
To the United States
In San Francisco they treated us like heroes
From Sacramento to Salt Lake City, Chicago
Detroit and New York
Finally we're returning to
France just months before the War was ended
Hello again, our lovely
Belgium wederom hallo, ons mooie België
Hold the line, Minerva will cover us
The Hotchkiss machine gun poured
Lead in all directions
Send our messages to all boches -
We will avenge for the Belgium!