ribbons 'n posies, royal salute,
guns and canons in chorus shoot

poppies to adorn the sleeping dead
o'er rocks 'n pebbles and bullets of lead

blood that splashes on chalk-white stones
on dusty granite and weary bones

death and silence drown the cries
as no-one hears as soldier dies

plastic posies, nugatory salute,
together, forever, canons shoot