Retiring The Colours Prayer lyrics

Oh honoured banner

Symbol of our freedom

You have stood well

Companions of the fallen

Now tattered and torn

Tis time to relieve you

The long watch is over

It is time to retire

So enhonoured disposition

By the purity of fire

We commit your ashes

To the winds of the nation

To the air, the sea, the shore

The nation of our birth

Keeps your memory

Keeps your pride

They that live now

Keep high your heads

They that sleep now

Rest in peace eternally