Standard (EADGBE)
Brezhnev took Afghanistan
And Begin took Beirut
Galtieri took the Union Jack
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
Took a cruiser with all hands
Apparently to make him give it back.
Uuuuuuuh Maggie what have you done?
They disembarked in 45,
And no-one spoke and no-one smiled
There were to many spaces in the line
Gathered at the cenotaph
All agreed with the hand on heart,
To sheath the sacrificial knives
But now she stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock clings
To her wet body in the rain.
In quiet desperation knuckles
White upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
Uuuuuuuh Maggie what have you done?
And still the dark stain spreads between
His shoulder blades
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
And when the fight was over
We spent what they had made
But in the bottom of our hearts
We felt the final cut.