Young Jimmy In Flanders Lyrics - Andy M. Stewart

Will ye go tae Flanders, Young Jimmy-o? 

Oh will ye go tae Flanders, Young Jimmy-o? 

There you'll get wine and brandy 

And medals find and dandy, 

O will ye go to Flanders, Young Jimmy-o? 

Oh dinnae go tae Flanders, Young Jimmy-o! 

Dinnae go tae Flanders, my own dear Jimmy-o! 

What good tae me is brandy 

And medals find and dandy, 

If you're lyin' deid on Flanders, My Jimmy-o? 

Will ye go tae Flanders, young Jimmy-o? 

And serve those who command us, Young Jimmy-o? 

We fight the fearful Hun 

With our long Lee-Enfield guns 

Though he's just your fellow man 

When we stop for Christmas day. 

Jimmy went to Flanders so many years ago, 

To the Somme, to Ypres and Arras, not so many years ago. 

He played his pipes to battle 

And the laddies died like cattle 

And the brandy was drunk in Whitehall 

A million miles away.