Deep in a trench lay the boys in the grey Their noses can’t smell, their guns are close As they fight for old Wilhelm Their helmets of steel and their great coats, caked in mud A lone crow caws above the field as the mortars ring out
Far to the east, soldiers fight a beast The one head of a two headed Eagle and the Bear An Ancient empire, crumbling and sick, face a new one young but inexperienced In the end, at bakhmach the eagle bested the bear But to the west a lion and a hog faced the second eagle head
The Kaisers Fury was unholy, and soon he would bring down the british folly And with but a swing of his hand he brought about the kaiserschlacht A million men marched from the bears fields into the roosters meadow And what stood in their way was two nations crippled and alone, and another sailing across the sea