"Paddy I hardly knew ya,
How's your Da and how's my Ma?
Thanks for coming to see me in the port of Royal Torquay"
"Where to Jack? now do come back,
You're Mammy's favourite born
I'll come and wave you off from Avonmouth tomorrow morn"
I'm off to Gallipoli
I'm off to Gallipoli
Where the sun always shines
The waves never swell
The wind never howls
The sand knows no shell
I'm for Gallipoli
And the boys fill up the Clyde
To take us out to sea
There's no place else to be
Cos that's our destiny
It's forged in poetry
I'm off to Gallipoli
I'm off to Gallipoli
Where the sun always shines
The waves never swell
The wind never howls
The sand knows no shell
I'm for Gallipoli
I'm for Gallipoli