You'd better sleep with your rifle
Keep your powder dry
You'll be fighting for your country
See the colors fly
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You're the men from Harloch
You'll be standing proud
You're the queens light infantry
Sing out loud
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You came for the glory to fight and to die
You stood in the thin red line
Remember the heroes when stories are told
They died in the thin red line, in the thin red line
Stand steady in the ranks boys
You gotta hold your fire
We'll show them what we're made of
When they hit the wire
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You'll be thinking of your love ones
That you left back there
Then the sound of the bugle
Cuts the cool night air
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You came for the glory to fight and to die
You stood in the thin red line
Remember the heroes when stories are told
They died in the thin red line, in the thin red line
Now you lay with your comrades
Far across the sea
When you're fighting for the empire
Did you die for me
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You'd better sleep with your rifle
Keep your powder dry
You'll be fighting for your country
See the colors fly
They'll be coming in the morning boys
You gotta hold the line
You came for the glory to fight and to die
You stood in the thin red line
Remember the heroes when stories are told
They died in the thin red line
You came for the glory to fight and to die
You stood in the thin red line
Remember the heroes when stories are told
They died in the thin red line, in the thin red line