What an incredible thread. I've learnt more about 'Waterloo' songs in 20 minutes than I have in 20 years. The version I learnt about 1968 seems to hover between many of the above. I have no idea where I got it from.

Jim

PLAINS OF WATERLOO

1. On the fourteenth day of June, me boys
In Flanders where we lay
The bugles the alarm did sound
Before the break of day.
We British, Belgians, Brunswickers
The Hanoverians too,
All Brussels left that bitter night
For the plains of Waterloo

CHORUS: Ten thousand prisoners we made
Imperial eagles two.
Though prisoners we made
There were more lay dead
On the plains of Waterloo.

2. For full four hours or longer
We sustained that bloody fray.
All through that long, cold, darksome night
Upon our arms we lay
Our orders from our general
Next day we did pursue
And retired in files for near six miles
To the plains of Waterloo.

3. The bloody battle then began
The cannons they did roar.
We being short of cavalry
They pressed us full sore
Three British cheers we gave them
And volleys not a few
Which made them wish themselves in France
And far from Waterloo.

4. Here's a health to George, our royal king
And long may he govern.
Likewise the Duke of Wellington
That noble son of Erin.
Three years they've added to our time
With pay and pension too
And now we are recorded all
As the men of Waterloo.