when the tigers broke free

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  it was just before dawn one miserable morning
  in black forty-four
  when the forward commander was told to sit tight
  when asked that his men be withdrawn
  and the generals gave thanks as the other ranks
  held be the enemy tanks - for a while
  and then the anzio beachhead was held for the price
  of a few hundred ordinary lives
  
  and kind old king george sent mother a note
  when he heard that father was gone
  it was, i recall, in the form of a scroll
  with golden leaf and all
  and i found it one day in a drawer of old
  photographs hidden away
  and my eyes still grow damp to remember
  his majesty signed with his own rubber stamp
  
  it was dark all around
  there was frost in the ground
  when the tigers broke free
  and noone survived from the royal fusiliers company c
  they were all left behind
  most of them dead
  the rest of them dying
  and that's how the high command took my daddy from me