Lay me down in the cold cold ground / Where before many more have gone / When they come / I will stand my ground / Stand my ground, I’ll not be afraid / Thoughts of home take away my fear / Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears / Once a year say a prayer for me / Close your eyes and remember me / Never more shall I see the sun / For I fell to a German’s gun. MacKenzie makes the song’s lyrics all the more meaningful. Joseph MacKenzie was the founding member of the percussion band Clann An Drumma and first sang the tribute on their 2000 album, Tried & True. The nature of his great-grandfather’s death touched Joseph MacKenzie, spurring him to eventually write the moving melody. MacKenzie was then bayoneted to death in the ensuing struggle. McKenzie lyrics: Original Scottish Version Lay me doon in the caul caul groon Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun Lay me doon in the caul caul groon Whaur. According to his great-grandson, Joseph Kilna MacKenzie, Sgt. MacKenzie chose to remain by the side of a wounded comrade rather than leave him to the advancing Germans. MacKenzie soon returned to his unit, and in 1917, the Seaforth Highlanders were engaged in the Battle of Arras: the same battle Siegfried Sassoon famously referenced in “The General.” There, Sgt. While recuperating, he was asked what killing Germans was like, to which he responded, “What a waste of a fine body of men.”
He was reportedly wounded and briefly sent back to Scotland to recover. Charles Stuart MacKenzie, served with the Seaforth Highlanders - a Scottish regiment of the British Army - during World War I. A UH-1D Iroquois helicopter climbs skyward after inserting soldiers near Ia Drang.
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