(Instrumental intro)
Please don’t cry
Please won’t you try
And think of when
I’m coming home again
The time is nigh
For our last goodbye
We are setting sail
And we must prevail
Now the tide is high
Time passed us by
Our course set for
A hostile shore
At the eleventh hour
What lies before
We pray ‘Dear Lord’
Protect us now
The beachhead looms
A bridge too far
The time is nigh
To run the gauntlet by
We’ll join the lines
Of all those brave young men
Ranked thigh by thigh
First rays of dawn
Have touched the sky
We’re waiting for
The first bugle cry
Now the time is nigh
To do or die
Not question why
As star shells fly
‘Forward men’
Comes the battle cry
The time is nigh
Good men must die
The time is nigh
Sacrificial lambs fly by
Cannon shells and Hellfire
Light the sky
The time is nigh
And I must try
To face the foe
Met eye to eye
Left for Fate to tell
Will I live or will I die
The time is nigh
(instrumental - outro)
Oh! My darling
My time is nigh.
Rodd Sherwin
to a composition by
Jeremy Williams
