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30 How Private H J Wright ended the War
Is it true there's a War old Wright said to me
said I, "I dunno" lets go and see
So off to investigate both of us went
to try and find out what the word War really meant
Over the creeks and up the great big hills
having no sleep and missing our meals
One day in the distance some big Turks we saw
we knew what it was to be playing at War
When around a few bombs and some Jack Johnsons [1] fell
Old Wright said I'm off its too much like hell
So away we both scooted with the Turks at our heels
Old Wright gasped I wonder how a bayonet feels
At last a Jack Johnston caught Wright on the Bot
and sent him along at a very fast trot
I'm off home he shouted as he whizzed past my head
but he hung in a tree half alive and half dead
When I helped him get down he was a bit dazed
his clothes were all torn and his backside was grazed
I soon fixed him up with some Vas and some plaster
But the Turks they were coming up faster and faster
At last old Wright said we'll end this War
the quickest way you ever saw
See those big boulders up on that hill
Well we'll crush those Turks like flour in a mill
Five hundred thousand were killed this way
the rest surrendered I'm glad to say
So that is the way Wright end the War
the quickest way you ever saw
Composed by Bert Havis (2)
A Coy 4th Battalion
on Gallipoli Peninsula
July 1915
[1] Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was a famous American boxer whose nickname was ‘The Big Smoke’. Shells that gave off a dense black smoke when they exploded thus were dubbed ‘Jack Johnsons’. Source: Glossary of Slang.
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