Contingent Ditties And Other Soldier Songs of the Great War
Contingent Ditties And Other Soldier Songs of the Great War
Frank S Brown
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19 c 2 There's another chap down on the left Who tacks M. A. To his name ; He'll talk of art or the price of wheat, - To him it's all the same. His looks are insignificant. In a battered pair of jeans, No one would think that such a gink Was a graduate of Queen's. The sergeant of our section is A most peculiar cuss ; He wears a serge sans chevrons, — No need of them with us. His rifle's carefully curried. He's a voice like Kingdom Come ; He was a clod who carried a hod. But can talk a drill boo...k dumb. The corporal with the greasy clothes, And an eye of ebony black (He got it in an argument With the thief who stole his pack) ; His office-pallored face is now Red dyed with honest tan ; A lawyer he that was to be A city's coming man. Down in the motor transport lines You will find a goggled runt Who drives an ammunition van Thro' mud lakes at the front. He always has a life-sized grouch ; He grumbles at his fare ; His van floor ain't a feather bed — And he's a millionaire. That fellow in the ulster, AVhich has seen most cruel use, And a pair of squelching rubber boots Which leak without excuse, He used to be a Civil clerk, Perched high upon a stool.
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