BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

“BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN”

I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,

“BIRDS OF PREY” MARCH

March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,

“SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO”

As I was spitting into the Ditch aboard o' the _Crocodile_,

SAPPERS

When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,

THAT DAY

It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope,

“THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN”

The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time,

CHOLERA CAMP

We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights,

THE LADIES

I've taken my fun where I've found it,

BILL 'AWKINS

“'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?”

THE MOTHER-LODGE

There was Rundle, Station Master,

“FOLLOW ME 'OME”

There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot,

THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN'

'E was warned agin 'er,

THE JACKET

Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi,

THE 'EATHEN

The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone,

THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY

Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant,

“MARY, PITY WOMEN!”

You call yourself a man,

FOR TO ADMIRE

The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles,

L'ENVOI

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,

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