There's a simple little cross out at Mons
Just a simple little cross out at Mons.
There's a little pile of stones
That stand above the bones
Of Private William Jones
Out at Mons.

And the cross is just a simple soldier's gun
With the business end still pointing to the sun;
There's a bayonette 'cross the top
And it doesn't look a lot
But now that's all he's got
Out at Mons.

And there are no pretty flowers on the grave;
And there is no fine memorial To The Brave.
He's a hero, so they say,
But he gave his life away
For fourteen pence a day
Out at Mons.

This is not a modern effort. It was a 'hit' in the music halls around 1919. Had anyone tried to do it a couple of years earlier they would probably have been lynched. But by 1919 the music halls were full of ex soldiers who knew very well what the score had been.