Removing the british with great success
The british rejoicing and saying god bless
Into their planes and boats and ships
Heading for blighty to fish and chips

But col nasser had not finished yet
Diraelis investment he had to get
£4.000.000 we vested into this canal
Taxpayers money in this foreign channel

I will close this canal company down
Said mr nasser without a frown
Some honest egyptions had there doubt
This is thieving, they were heard to shout

But close it down the mighty man did
Its all mine., theirs no need to bid
Not long after from a morning sky
Roaring engines were  heard on high

At a place called el gamil
Egyptions stirred in the morning chill
The sound of shells and cordite smell
men descending to a thunderous hell

Ack ack and flack was poured at these troops
But none of it mattered to these sturdy groups
B companies men dropped over enemy heads
Wakeing them up to realities dreads

Acrid smoke and cordite smell
Self propelled guns releasing shell
Streams of tracer seering a path
Dead mens bodies in a bloody bath

All because nasser could not wait
For that day in 68
This worldly waterway would be his
Not one parent their son would miss

Sleep well  fallen comrades....J.B.