Australian Soldier Song

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 98

Australian Soldier Song

(By E. Beaufils Lamb, January, 1915.)

The bugle calls, The bugle calls, O'er mountain, hill, and vale The bugle calls, The bugle calls To where the troop ships sail. Oh, mothers, dry your tearful eyes, And buckle sword and straps, And help us now, as once you did, When we were tiny chaps. The Empire needs its Southern boys, You would not bid us stay. That soldiers' bugle call must know No laggard lads to-day. The bugle calls; The bugle calls, We hear the martial sound, That buggle call, That bugle call The soldier-heart has found; We cannot stay, our manhood cries, To down the Empire's foe, And where the gallant Allies strive Australia's sons must go. Our brothers call across the seas, The flower of England falls, Unfurl, unfurl the starry flag ; j^Needs must when country calls. The bugle calls, The bugle calls, Where Empire's colours wave.

The bugle calls, The bugle calls, To glory or the grave. At night when m Pacific seas, We ride the ocean deep ; Beneath the gleaming Southern Cross Your soldier boys will sleep, To dream that when its shining stars Are thousand miles away, Still floats aloft the starry flag, Through night until the day. The bugle calls, The bugle calls, The ocean path we take. The bugle calls, The bugle calls, For Right and Honour's sake. Then mothers, dry your tearful eyes, And buckle sword and straps, Your tender hands are just the same, Now we are grown-up chaps. Come, wives and sweethearts, say farewell, We leave the golden strand, Good-bye to home and love and you, Good-bye, dear Summerland. The Empire calls, . The Empire calls, We can no longer stay. The Empire calls, , The Empire calls, We sail the seas away.