Up to your waist in water
 Up to your eyes in slush
 Using the kind of language
 That makes the sergeants blush;
 Who wouldn't join the army
 That's what we all enquire
 Don't we pity the poor civilians
 Sitting around the fire?
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
 Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
 As soon as reveille has gone
 We feel just as heavy as lead
 But we never get up till the sergeant
 Brings our breakfast up to bed
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 What do you want with eggs and ham
 When you've got plum and apple jam?
 Form fours! Right turn!
 How shall we spend the money we earn?
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war

 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
 Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
 As soon as reveille has gone
 We feel just as heavy as lead
 But we never get up till the sergeant
 Brings our breakfast up to bed
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 What do you want with eggs and ham
 When you've got plum and apple jam?
 Form fours! Right turn!
 How shall we spend the money we earn
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war

 Come to the cook-house door, boys
 Sniff at the lovely stew
 Who is it says the colonel
 Gets better grub than you?
 Any complaints this morning?
 Do we complain? Not we
 What's the matter with lumps of onion
 Floating around the tea?
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
 Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
 As soon as reveille has gone
 We feel just as heavy as lead
 But we never get up till the sergeant
 Brings our breakfast up to bed
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 What do you want with eggs and ham
 When you've got plum and apple jam?
 Form fours! Right turn!
 How shall we spend the money we earn?
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war

 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 Who wouldn't be a soldier, eh?
 Oh, it's a shame to take the pay
 As soon as reveille has gone
 We feel just as heavy as lead
 But we never get up till the sergeant
 Brings our breakfast up to bed
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war
 What do you want with eggs and ham
 When you've got plum and apple jam?
 Form fours! Right turn!
 How shall we spend the money we earn
 Oh! Oh! Oh! It's a lovely war