Twas just a month ago, no more,
We sailed to Greece to win the war.
We marched and groaned beneath our load,
While bombers blasted us off the road.
They chased us here, they chased us there,
The bastards chased us everywhere,
And while they dropped their loads of death,
We cursed the bloody R.A.F.
Yet the R.A.F. were there in force,
They left a few at home of course,
We saw the entire force, one day,
When a fighter shot the other way,
And when we heard the wireless news,
When "portly Winston" gave his views,
"The R.A.F, he said, "in Greece,
Are fighting hard to give us peace".
And as we scratched our heads in thought,
This smells distinctly like a wrought,
And if in Greece the Air Force be,
Then where the bloody hell are we?
And then one day we met the "Hun",
At odds of thirty three to one,
And though they made it pretty hot,
We gave the "bludgers" all we'd got.
The bullets whizzed, the big guns roared,
We howled for ships, to get aboard.
At last they came, and on we got,
And hurried from this cursed spot.
-George Bateman
