Task Force Falklands

Car packed and ready to go;

on leave so we thought but it wasn't so;

I suppose it wasn't just meant to be;

T Air Defence Battery was going to sea;

Across the south Atlantic Ocean;

Well at least that was the notion

110 ships all packed to the top;

Commandoes, Paras, Guards, Ordinance, Artillery, the lot;

This is it lads. We're going to war;

But nobody knew, what was in store

And all those mixed up feelings inside;

Were damn near impossible for us to hide.

We landed at a place called San Carlos Bay;

In 1982. On the 21st of May;

To repel Argentine invaders from the Malvinas;

Anxious, proud and scared. You had to have seen us.

Across the Falklands, the Task Force did travel;

By air, sea and foot and not as a rabble;

Objective Port Stanley for the final shove;

First taking Tumble Down; Goose Green and Bluff Cove

We recaptured the Islands. They were British again,

And amid all the glory, cheering and pain;

We now look to peace for as long as we reign

And no more hostilities, that drive man insane

Robert C Millar

R C Millar