A soldier fighting for his land was sailed across the sea
The girl he planned to marry he was never more to see
An eighteen-year-old soldier called up from the town
A bullet from a bren gun had brought that soldier down
And now he lies there buried in a grave thats filled with sand
An eighteen-year-old soldier in a foreign land.
His eighteen-year-old girlfriend tears still in her eyes
She cannot stop them coming no matter how she tries
Her parents tell her not to cry it does not ease the pain
A hundred years of crying will not bring him back again
But she knows more than both of them and they dont understand
The father of her unborn child is buried in the sand
His fifty-year-old mother is lying in her bed
His father standing close by his eyes are sore and red
He did not want to be alone why did they have to die
Why did they go and leave him without a last goodbye
For his wife has past away now with a picture in her hand
Of an eighteen year old soldier who is buried in the sand.
The girl he planned to marry he was never more to see
An eighteen-year-old soldier called up from the town
A bullet from a bren gun had brought that soldier down
And now he lies there buried in a grave thats filled with sand
An eighteen-year-old soldier in a foreign land.
His eighteen-year-old girlfriend tears still in her eyes
She cannot stop them coming no matter how she tries
Her parents tell her not to cry it does not ease the pain
A hundred years of crying will not bring him back again
But she knows more than both of them and they dont understand
The father of her unborn child is buried in the sand
His fifty-year-old mother is lying in her bed
His father standing close by his eyes are sore and red
He did not want to be alone why did they have to die
Why did they go and leave him without a last goodbye
For his wife has past away now with a picture in her hand
Of an eighteen year old soldier who is buried in the sand.
