She clung onto her soldier as he was changing guard
But a man cannot shoulder blame that falls on so hard
The Palace has been stormed
But the watch is on the ramparts
The ghost of a former world
Is drifting through the walls
The palisade is broken
The hill is on its knees
And the river it has over spilled
Out into the seas
Hold on to your soldier as he is changing guard
Don't you turn your back on me
We must protect the Queen in our own back yard
And country is a religion
For the nationalists are at the gate
And they're storming our own barricade
Shouting their lies and hate
And the patriot is dying strung up in a barbed wire fence
And they're burning the flag of liberty in a fire of ugly sense
We must be the watchdogs of a thinking common sense
We must show the courage as the guard changes post
And the 21 gun salute goes up
The ship of state does birth
And all the men and women gather round liberty's bright hearth
