His mother and brother said 'Johnny ... Don't go'!

The Bar girls of 'Vunger's' said ... 'Yu Baby San! No'!

Then dripping black darkness, his mates standing by;

There was a dying. In silence ... the eye's asking why?



Just nineteen short summers ... or ... perhaps a little more,

But what's to be said, it was ... Uh, not a real war;

Sweet Johnny sleep ... it is best you don't know.

Happy was the land ... that needed no heroes.