The Banks of the Leopold Canal - The Deep Dark Woods

Time is a ticking my love

Can no longer stay

Sounds of the alarms

And I must go away

Ordered out overseas

For many a weary day

To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal

Oh, Willie, Sweet Willie

Don’t leave me here alone

For I wish to God above

That I was never born

Parting from you my love

I’d rather be buried alive

So stay home with me Sweet Willie

And I’ll be your loving wife

Oh Annie, Sweet Annie

Surely can not stay

The government has ordered me

And I must go away

The government has ordered me

Set up their command

And I’m bound away my love

For the Leopold Canal

Cruel was the war

When it first began

Out of Canada

We lost, many a man

Out of Canada

Men were battered and torn

Thousands lay dead on Leopold’s shore

Sitting in the trenches

Couldn’t help but curse

This cruel bloody war

Had taken me from her

Taken me from my sweetheart

And the place where I loved to dwell

And shipped me off to the bloody banks

Of the Leopold Canal

Time is a ticking my love

Can no longer stay

Sounds of the alarms

And I must go away

Ordered out overseas

For many a weary day

To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal

To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal

To the banks, of a place they call Leopold Canal