I joined the British army when I was just eighteen so proud to wear that uniform a soldier of the queen t'was the year of 1982 we sailed from Portsmouth quay we were heading for the Falkland isles to set our people free but we little knew what lay in store at the battle for goose green
My sweetheart was a Hampshire lass the prettiest girl I'd seen she swore that she would wait for me a soldiers wife she'd be we pledged our love to god above for all eternity midst all the flags and cheering but our love could never be for a cruel fate awaited me at the battle of goose green
When president Galtieri invaded the Falklands green he gave that iron lady her opportunity we'll raise the flag and the battle cry fight on 'til victory but it wasn't they who had to die at the hands of savagery it was they who started this misery and the battle of goose green
When the carnage it was ended and Britannia ruled the waves they gathered up the dead ones and dug a massive grave they buried them all together the cost of liberty victims of a senseless war and mindless lunacy and I Was Left just half a man from the battle of goose green
The maimed the burned the wounded they shipped us all back home and I got a nice new wheelchair to cart my shattered bones and now I'm 42 years old how many more to go my body's twisted and paralysed I feel so bloody low what the hell were we all fighting for in the battle for goose green
a curse on politicians game and the battle of goose green nothing gained if nothing learned from the battle of goose green