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That Serbian man |
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Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand |
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With what would transpire |
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Would change the world |
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And set Europe afire |
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On one side the Czar and the King |
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And on the other stood |
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The Kaiser and Ottoman thang |
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The boys and the men and the girls |
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Were armed and mobilized |
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Their forces aligned |
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They crawled through the mud |
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And they cut through the wire |
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A constant assault of artillery fire |
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The curtain of shrapnel |
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Took the flesh from the bone |
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They fell in the field |
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And never got home |
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They were the lads |
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Who fought and won |
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Up over the bridge |
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A heavy fortress lies |
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Atop of the ridge |
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Bristling with guns |
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Austro-Hungarian Empire dug in |
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They fought through the night |
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Like the devil at dawn |
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The enemy captured |
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Or dead on the ground |
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It wasn't achieved without terrible loss |
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Posthumous award of Victoria Cross |
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They were the lads |
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Who fought and won |