Jack Dunn, son of a gun, over in France today
Keeps fit doing his bit up to his eyes in clay
Each night after a fight to pass the time along
He's got a little gramophone that plays this song:
Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there
Drop me ANYWHERE
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon should be
Whoa!
Tiddley iddley ighty
Hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me!
Bill Spry, started to fly, up in an aeroplane
In France, taking a chance, wish'd he was down again
Poor Bill, feeling so ill, yell'd out to Pilot Brown:
"Steady a bit, yer fool! we're turning upside down!"
Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there
Drop me ANYWHERE
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon should be
Whoa!
Tiddley iddley ighty
Hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me!
Jack Lee, having his tea, says to his pal MacFayne
"Look, chum, apple and plum! it's apple and plum again!
Same stuff, isn't it rough? fed up with it I am!
Oh! for a pot of Aunt Eliza's raspb'ry jam!"
Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there
Drop me ANYWHERE
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon should be
Whoa!
Tiddley iddley ighty
Hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me!
One day Mickey O'Shea stood in a trench somewhere
So brave, having a shave, and trying to part his hair
Mick yells, dodging the shells and lumps of dynamite:
"Talk of the Crystal Palace on a Firework night!"
Take me back to dear old Blighty!
Put me on the train for London town!
Take me over there
Drop me ANYWHERE
Liverpool, Leeds, or Birmingham, well, I don't care!
I should love to see my best girl
Cuddling up again we soon should be
Whoa!
Tiddley iddley ighty
Hurry me home to Blighty
Blighty is the place for me!