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Banjo Paterson - Now Listen to Me and I`ll Tell You My Views
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Now listen to me and I`ll tell you my views concerning the African war,
And the man who upholds any different views, the same is a rotten Pro-Boer!
(Though I`m getting a little bit doubtful myself, as it drags on week after week:
But it`s better not ask any questions at all — let us silence all doubts with a shriek!)

And first let us shriek the unstinted abuse that the Tory Press prefer —
De Wet is a madman, and Steyn is a liar, and Kruger a pitiful cur!
(Though I think if Oom Paul — as old as he is — were to walk down the Strand with his gun,
A lot of these heroes would hide in the sewers or take to their heels and run!
For Paul he has fought like a man in his day, but now that he`s feeble and weak
And tired, and lonely, and old and grey, of course it`s quite safe to shriek!)

And next let us join in the bloodthirsty shriek, Hooray for Lord Kitchener`s "bag"!
For the fireman`s torch and the hangman`s cord — they are hung on the English Flag!
In the front of our brave old army! Whoop! the farmhouse blazes bright.
And the women weep and their children die — how dare they presume to fight!
For none of them dress in a uniform, the same as by rights they ought.
They`re fighting in rags and in naked feet, like Wallace`s Scotchmen fought!
(And they clothe themselves from our captured troops — and they`re catching them every week;
And they don`t hand them — and the shame is ours, but we cover the shame with a shriek!)

And, lastly, we`ll shriek the political shriek as we sit in the dark and doubt;
Where the Birmingham Judas led us in, and there`s no one to lead us out.
And Rosebery — whom we depended upon! Would only the Oracle speak!
"You go to the Grocers," says he, "for your laws!" By Heavens! it`s time to shriek!
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