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FOLK * SONG		 Rolling Wheels
28 Maori Battn,     1942-44
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A song of the Maori Battalion; they led the advance across North Africa and up Italy during World War Two


Rolling wheels across the desert
Oh how happy we will be
When we reach old Miserata
On the road to Tripoli

Rocky mountains of Takrouna
Where Ngarimu sleeps so still
For his courage we remember
Ngarimu's victory still

From Orsogna's sunny mountains
To Cassino's blood and hell
On to the Eternal City
Frosinone, fare thee well

Rolling wheels across Italia
'Twill be hard to think it's real
When the blue Pacific waters
Roll again beneath our keel

But we always will remember
In the sunshine and the rain
All the pals we left behind us
Who won't be coming home again.

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