"Ready aye ready"

The motto of the Canadian Army is "ready aye ready"!At Lundy's Lane it was first uttered when a young British officer asked a frightened southern Ontario farm boy if he were ready for the night engagement.The Canadian Army has a wonderful lexicon of nicknames for it's regiments The Hasting and Prince Edward County Regiment are, The Hasty Pees. The Seventh Toronto Field Artillery are Seven Gun...well you get the idea.It's all about pride ....Canadian Pride! I need Corb Lund now to write some kick ass music for this

To Lundy’s Lane Yankees came, a country to steal
Nothin to stop them but farm boys with musket and cold steel
The faint rattle of musketry over yon hill, came the enemy to kill
In the line scared but steady, ready aye ready they cried
The invaders came, and came, by the score they died
Forevermore in Canadian army lore
Ready aye ready!

Rocky Mountain Rangers, Lake Superior Snake Rapers, Hasty Pees and Loyal Eddies
Ready Aye Ready!

From Prairie fields to Flanders Fields, to the muddy bloody Somme
At the mercy of the gas and guns of the hun.
That hill the Canadian Corps to take sworn
Up Vimy Ridge they advanced at the steady crying Ready aye ready!
Through the smoke, clouds the Red Ensign flying and a nation born.
With shot and shell they sent em to hell leaving corpses to bury
Crying Ready aye ready!

Five Tribe, Seven Guns, Black Watch, Crazy Eights, and Kings Own Calgary.... Ready Aye Ready!

The RCAF over the cliffs of Dover flew fightin as part of the few.
Smashed into the enemy, ready aye ready, to few owed much, by so many.
Standin fast at El Alamein to Dieppe Bloody Dieppe in France we came.
always ready aye ready!
From Caen, the Falaise cauldron and the Causeway at Walcheren
To Ka Pyong and nameless Korean hills so many.
With shock, fire, maneuver and shell they sent the fuckers to hell!
Canadian soldiers always ready aye ready!

Lincs and Winks, Eeks and Squeaks, Canadian Grenadier Guards, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
Ready aye ready!

Whenever Canada must make a stand even in a place like Afghanistan
Whatever place Canadian soldiers journey to keep us safe.
You mess with the best, you die like the rest!
Ready aye ready!
Our fightin regimental fathers that gave us our country and so much more.
Our freedom and liberty, forever Canadian soldiers have foreswore.
Ready aye ready!

We sleep in peace at night because Canadian soldiers are ready to fight.
The enemy isn’t in our backyard , thy sons are on guard, and you are free.
Ready aye Ready!

Grey and Simcoe Foresters, Princess Louise Fusliers , Hussars and Dragoons.Fort Garrys, Blue Puttees and the Glamour Boys of the 48 th Highlanders.Ladies from Hades...and Loyal Eddies!Ready aye ready!

Van Doos, Gunners, zippers, Highlanders Little Black Devils and infantryalways...........
ready aye ready!