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How are you boys, I'm just from camp and feel as brave as Caesar |
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The sound of bugle, drum, and fife has raised my Ebeneezer |
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I'm full of fight, odd shots, and shell, I'll leap into the saddle |
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And when the yankees see me come, Lord how they will skedaddle |
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so |
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so |
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I was a plow boy in the field, a gawking, lazy, dodger |
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When came the conscript officer and took me for a soldier |
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He put a musket in my hand and showed me how to fire it |
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I marched and counter-marched all day; Lord, how I did admire it |
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With corn and hog fat for my food, a digging, guarding, drilling |
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I got as thin as twice-skimmed milk and scarcely worth the killing |
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And now I'm used to homely fare, my skin is tough as leather |
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I do guard duty cheerfully in every kind of weather |
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'Tis true I have not seen a fight, nor have I smelt gunpowder |
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But then the way I'll pepper them will be a sin to chowder |
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A sergeant's stripes I now will sport, perhaps be color bearer |
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And then a captain, good for me, I'll be a regular terror |
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so |
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so |
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I'll then begin to wear the stars and then the wreathes of glory |
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Until the army I command and poets sing my story |
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Our congress will pass votes of thanks to him who rose from zero |
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The people in a mass will shout, "Hurrah! Behold the Hero!" |
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so |
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so |
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What's that? Oh dear a boiler burst, a gas pipe has exploded |
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Maybe the yankees are hard by with muskets ready loaded |
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Oh gallant soldiers beat them back, I'll join you in the frolic |
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But I've a chill from head to foot and symptoms of the colic |
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so |
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so |