Jeff Wayne, Richard Burton, David Essex - The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine lyrics

The hammering from the pit
And the pounding of
Guns grew louder my fear rose at the
Sound of someone creeping into
The house then I
Saw it was a young artilleryman, weary
Streaked with blood and dirt

Anyone here?

Come in here, drink this

Thank you!

What's happened?

They wiped us out hundreds dead
Maybe thousands

The Heat Ray?

The Martians! They were inside the hoods of
Machines they'd made massive metal things
On legs! Giant machines that walked they
Attacked us! They wiped us out!

Machines?

Fighting machines! Picking up men
And bashing 'em
Against trees just hunks of metal
But they knew exactly what they were doing

Mmm there was another cylinder
Came last night

Yes it looked bound for London

London! Carrie! I hadn't dreamed
There could be
Danger to Carrie and her father
So many miles away i must
Go to London at once!

And me to report to headquarters
If there's anything left of it

At Byfleet we came upon an inn
But it was deserted

Is everybody dead?

Not everybody look! Six cannons
With gunners standing by

Bows and arrows against the lightning they
Haven't seen the heat ray yet!

We hurried along the road
To Weybridge suddenly, there
Was a heavy explosion the ground heaved
Windows shattered and gusts of smoke
Erupted in the air

Look! There they are! What did I tell you?

Quickly, one after the other
Four of the fighting machines
Appeared monstrous tripods, higher than
The tallest steeple
Striding over pine trees and
Smashing them walking
Engines of glistening metal each carried a
Huge funnel and I realized with horror that
I'd seen this awful thing before

A fifth machine appeared on the far bank
It raised it'self to full height
Flourished the funnel high in the
Air - and the ghostly
Terrible Heat Ray struck the
Town as it struck, all
Five fighting machines exulted
Emitting deafening howls which
Roared like thunder

Ulla! Ulla!

The six guns we had
Seen now fired simultaneously
Decapitating a fighting machine the Martian
Inside the hood was
Slain, splashed to the four
Winds, and the body
Nothing now but an intricate device of metal
Went whirling to destruction as
The other monsters advanced
People ran away blindly, the
Artilleryman among them, but
I jumped into the water and hid until forced
Up to breathe now the guns spoke again
But this time the heat ray
Sent them to oblivion

Ulla!

With a white flash, the Heat Ray
Swept across the river scalded, half-blinded
And agonized, I staggered through leaping
Hissing water towards the shore, i fell
Helplessly, in full sight of the Martians
Expecting nothing but death the foot
Of a Martian came down close to
My head, then lifted again
As the four Martians carried away the
Debris of their fallen comrade
And I realized that by a
Miracle I had escaped!

Ulla! Ulla! Ulla!