I would like help in filling in the lyrics to this song. I have not been able to find them anywhere, but have worked out some from a video of the song on YouTube but cannot hear clearly enough part of verse 4 and the last line of the spoken verse 5: Border Boys Kept Coming Chorus 1: Off they marched their spirits high Tears in their eyes as they waved goobye. They'd no idea if they'd live or die But the Border Boys kept comin'. Verse 1: Where on earth's the Dardanelles? It's no a place we know right well, It's itchin' for a fight an' there's gonna be hell For the Border Boys are comin'. chorus 2: Off they marched their spirits high Tears in their eyes as they waved goobye. They'd no idea if they'd live or die For the Border Boys kept comin'. Verse 2: They mustered them away so the brave men go What went through their minds we shall never know Fathers, sons and brothers in the very first row, And the Border Boys kept comin'. Verse 3: They marched in a line along the river bed The far away sands would be sown blood red Five hundred dead in twenty minutes it's said Yet the Border Boys kept comin'. Chorus 1 (x2): Verse 4: .......... sleep within our grave What a hellish way to treat the brave, We'll remember your names and the memory's safe How the Border Boys kept comin'. Verse 5 (Spoken): They signed up in their thousands, the very first They put them into boats and sailed them o'er the sea The gallant men of the K O S B The men who led the charge at Gallipoli ......................................
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