ON THE ROAD TO TIPPERARY

Nelson Evening Mail, 27 May 1916, Page 2

ON THE ROAD TO TIPPERARY

VERSES BY A The following- verses, received by an ArdVosjfan lady, were written by a soldier who is "at present serving in Franco with the Canadians : On the road to Tipperary, There's a place that's vacant still." There's a rifle lying silent, There's a uniform to. fill; True, at home they'll 'hate to lose you, But the march! will soon begin On the road to Tipperary, With the Army to Berlin. In. the Morris chairs, of' clubland Are you still content to stay, While others 'guard" your honour, And Iho 'Germans'' boast "the day." Your King and country nee-dybu, And we want to count- you in On. the road' ib Tipperary, "With the Armv to Berlin. ".'•.•■'.■ Have you seen the "lonely crosses," . Boys who'll never more, come home? Will you idle while they're, calling? Will you leave them there alone? For they're calling, -calling, calling,-

And they want to,, hear yen sing On-the road to Tipperary."With the Aimv to Berlin.

When from JTons they fought each footstep, , ' When their lips with pain were dumb, : Twas the hope which held _£heir trenches Never doubting you would come. ' Throiigh the frozen hell of winter,' '\Didst the shrapnel's raking- din,' They, have waited'; never fearing' Yon would join, them- in Berlin.

On the roadi to Tipperary, There's a- crimson debt to pay; There's a land of fearful darkness, Patient faces, tired and grey. Sobbing women, ruined girlhood, Strew the train of cultured sin. Can't yon hear the call for vengeance ? Won't yon join us for Berlin?

On the road to Tipperary Sleep the boys whose days are done iDon't you hear the voices calling To complete what theyi've begun There are ghostly fingers,.-'beckoning, There are victories yet to win On the road to Tipperary. I With the Army to Berlin.

',oa tho road to Tipperary, When the bov* come home at last, . "Won't vou wish that you had .listened Ere Old England's c all had' passed? But.the gate of manhood)' s open, Yonr part can still -begin' On the road to Tipperary, 'With the Army to Berlin.