I'll sing you a song and it's not very long

It's about a young man

Who never did wrong;

Suddenly he died one day

The reason why no one would say

He was tall and long

And his arms were strong

And this is the strange part of my song;

He was always well from foot to head

And then one day they found him dead

They found him dead so I've been told

His eyes were closed his heart was cold;

Only one clue to why he died

A bayonet sticking in his side