Marching To Germany
NG along together, lads ; we'll have a little song,
Kits won't be so heavy and the way won't be so long
We're goin' to cook " the Sossiges," to cook 'em hot and strong While we go marching to Germany
Chorus Hurrah, hurrah,...
NG along together, lads ; we'll have a little song,
Kits won't be so heavy and the way won't be so long
We're goin' to cook " the Sossiges," to cook 'em hot and strong While we go marching to Germany
Chorus Hurrah, hurrah,...
Dr-rud dr-rud dr-rud
Kitchener's Army on the march Through Marylebone and Marble Arch,
Men in motley, so to speak,
Been in training about a week,
Young Thompson was a bit too short,
But hard as nails and level-headed,
And in his soul the proper sort Of dogged pluck was deeply bedded ;
To join the ranks he almost ran,
PE for any adventure, sturdy, loyal and game,
Quick to the call of the Mother, the young Canadians came
Eager to show their mettle, ready to shed their blood,
They bowed their neck to the collar and trained in the Wiltshire mud;
By bridge and battery, town and trench,
They're fighting with bull-dog pluck;
Not one, from Tommy to General French,
Is down upon his luck
When Sibyl sits upon the beach With Kate and Madeline,
Dick,
Tom and Jack, the swain of each,
Loll gloomily between,
Foe and friend and foe again,
Turning coat and turning yet,
That's a feat you don't disdain,
De Wet
In heaven, a pale uncertain star,
Through sullen vapour peeps,
On earth, extended wide and far,
In all the symmetry of war,
Cossacks they're coming
The eager hoofs are drumming,
On glinting steel the autumn sunlight glances
The distant mass draws nearer,
Darkness expectant, discreet Only a lamp here and there,
Gloom in the clattering street,
Stygian black in the square;
Dazzling fascias and fronts,
When I asked my dear Edwin to shave I'd never a thought of denial;
He'd been such an absolute slave,
I put his devotion on trial
But his eye threw a sinister dart,
Who's for the trench—Are you, my laddie
Who'll follow French—Will you, my laddie
Who's fretting to begin,
Who's going out to win