1914 - Pillars of Fire (The Battle of Messines) lyrics

It were the good tunnels, 26 ways of doom
One million pounds of ammonal
Were packed into the underground pit's
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 am, 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 am, 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