(Take Me Back To) Dear Old Blighty - Kevin Coyne

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,

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!