You'd better sleep with your rifle
 Keep your powder dry
 You'll be fighting for your country
 See the colours fly
 They'll [bad word] in the morning boys 
 You gotta hold the line 

 You're the men from Harloch
 You'll be standing proud
 You're the Queen's light infantry
 Sing out loud
 They'll [bad word] 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 'em what we're made of
 When they hit the wire
 They'll [bad word] in the morning boys
 You gotta hold the line 

 You'll be thinking of your loved ones
 That you left back there
 Then the sound of the bugle
 Cuts the cool night air
 They'll [bad word] 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 [bad word]  Far across the sea
 Where you're fighting for the Empire 
 Did you die for me
 They'll [bad word] 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 colours fly
 They'll [bad word] 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 (remember the heroes)
 When stories are told
 They died in the thin red line 

 You came for the glory (you came for the glory)
 To fight and to die
 You stood in the thin red line
 Remember the heroes (remember the heroes)
 When stories are told
 They died in the thin red line
 In the thin red line