[00:23.741]How are you boys, I'm just from camp and feel as brave as Caesar
[00:27.408]The sound of bugle, drum, and fife has raised my Ebeneezer
[00:31.044]I'm full of fight, odd shots, and shell, I'll leap into the saddle
[00:34.961]And when the yankees see me come, Lord how they will skedaddle
[00:39.154]Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so
[00:42.799]It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so
[00:54.575]I was a plow boy in the field, a gawking, lazy, dodger
[00:57.940]When came the conscript officer and took me for a soldier
[01:01.861]He put a musket in my hand and showed me how to fire it
[01:05.780]I marched and counter-marched all day; Lord, how I did admire it
[01:09.690]With corn and hog fat for my food, a digging, guarding, drilling
[01:13.613]I got as thin as twice-skimmed milk and scarcely worth the killing
[01:17.533]And now I'm used to homely fare, my skin is tough as leather
[01:21.175]I do guard duty cheerfully in every kind of weather
[01:33.207]'Tis true I have not seen a fight, nor have I smelt gunpowder
[01:36.570]But then the way I'll pepper them will be a sin to chowder
[01:40.494]A sergeant's stripes I now will sport, perhaps be color bearer
[01:44.136]And then a captain, good for me, I'll be a regular terror
[01:48.058]Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so
[01:51.970]It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so
[02:03.715]I'll then begin to wear the stars and then the wreathes of glory
[02:07.346]Until the army I command and poets sing my story
[02:11.267]Our congress will pass votes of thanks to him who rose from zero
[02:15.182]The people in a mass will shout, "Hurrah! Behold the Hero!"
[02:19.097]Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so
[02:22.747]It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so
[02:40.652]What's that? Oh dear a boiler burst, a gas pipe has exploded
[02:44.006]Maybe the yankees are hard by with muskets ready loaded
[02:47.931]Oh gallant soldiers beat them back, I'll join you in the frolic
[02:51.846]But I've a chill from head to foot and symptoms of the colic
[03:03.639]Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't shake your knees and blink so
[03:07.282]It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades don't you think so