Bonny Bunch Of Roses Oh (The War Song)
Freda Black
April 2012
A young man sit on his mother’s knee
and he gripped his mother by the hand
said ‘mother, I’ll rise in the morning
and I’ll soon be able to command’
she said, ‘son, don’t talk so venturesome
‘cos England is the heart of old
it’s from Ireland, then through Scotland,
and the universe never have been broke’
so when he got near old Moscow town
he was overpowered by the grieving snow
and Moscow was a-blazing
so he lost all his bonny bunch of roses, oh