1914 - Vimy Ridge (In Memory of Filip Konowal) lyrics
[1914 - Vimy Ridge In Memory of Filip Konowal lyrics]
Things didn't go down as expected
Hill 145, ill-fated Vimy Ridge
We are entrenched in mud as wild hogs
My 47th Battalion
A small wooded knoll we called "the
Pimple" 2 miles in front of us
We need to capture the machine gun nests
Each was heavily defended
Thousands of wounded, thousands of dead
We're pinned down by the machine guns
Millions of shells were fired
Had not done damage
But Vimy Ridge will be in Canadian hands
We'vе got straight orders:
Follow your lieutenant and if hе
Dies follow your corporal
Prepare to use grenades and bayonets
Don't lose contact with the
Fellow next to you
And for crying out loud, try not to die
A freak snowstorm struck just as we started
But blizzard proved fortunate
Snow blinded heinies lost their courage
We captured trench by trench
We killed them as rats in the pit
Some begging for help to the skies
More of the war now could be seen
Than from any other place in France
Thousands of wounded, thousands of dead
We're pinned down by the machine guns
Millions of shells were fired
Had not done damage
But Vimy Ridge now in Canadian hands
Hill 145, ill-fated Vimy Ridge
We are entrenched in mud as wild hogs
My 47th Battalion
A small wooded knoll we called "the
Pimple" 2 miles in front of us
We need to capture the machine gun nests
Each was heavily defended
Thousands of wounded, thousands of dead
We're pinned down by the machine guns
Millions of shells were fired
Had not done damage
But Vimy Ridge will be in Canadian hands
We'vе got straight orders:
Follow your lieutenant and if hе
Dies follow your corporal
Prepare to use grenades and bayonets
Don't lose contact with the
Fellow next to you
And for crying out loud, try not to die
A freak snowstorm struck just as we started
But blizzard proved fortunate
Snow blinded heinies lost their courage
We captured trench by trench
We killed them as rats in the pit
Some begging for help to the skies
More of the war now could be seen
Than from any other place in France
Thousands of wounded, thousands of dead
We're pinned down by the machine guns
Millions of shells were fired
Had not done damage
But Vimy Ridge now in Canadian hands