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Rudyard Kipling - Birds of Prey March
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March!  The mud is cakin` good about our trousies.
 Front! — eyes front, an` watch the Colour-casin`s drip.
Front!  The faces of the women in the `ouses
 Ain`t the kind o` things to take aboard the ship.
 
     Cheer!  An` we`ll never march to victory.
     Cheer!  An` we`ll never live to `ear the cannon roar!
         The Large Birds o` Prey
         They will carry us away,
     An` you`ll never see your soldiers any more!
 
Wheel!  Oh, keep your touch; we`re goin` round a corner.
 Time! — mark time, an` let the men be`ind us close.
Lord! the transport`s full, an` `alf our lot not on `er —
 Cheer, O cheer!  We`re going off where no one knows.
 
March!  The Devil`s none so black as `e is painted!
 Cheer!  We`ll `ave some fun before we`re put away.
`Alt, an` `and `er out — a woman`s gone and fainted!
 Cheer!  Get on — Gawd `elp the married men to-day!
 
Hoi!  Come up, you `ungry beggars, to yer sorrow.
 (`Ear them say they want their tea, an` want it quick!)
You won`t have no mind for slingers, not to-morrow —
 No; you`ll put the `tween-decks stove out, bein` sick!
 
`Alt!  The married kit `as all to go before us!
 `Course it`s blocked the bloomin` gangway up again!
Cheer, O cheer the `Orse Guards watchin` tender o`er us,
 Keepin` us since eight this mornin` in the rain!
 
Stuck in `eavy marchin`-order, sopped and wringin` —
 Sick, before our time to watch `er `eave an` fall,
`Ere`s your `appy `ome at last, an` stop your singin`.
 `Alt!  Fall in along the troop-deck!  Silence all!
 
     Cheer!  For we`ll never live to see no bloomin` victory!
     Cheer!  An` we`ll never live to `ear the cannon roar!  (One cheer more!)
         The jackal an` the kite
         `Ave an `ealthy appetite,
     An` you`ll never see your soldiers any more!  (`Ip!  Urroar!)
         The eagle an` the crow
         They are waitin` ever so,
     An` you`ll never see your soldiers any more!  (`Ip!  Urroar!)
         Yes, the Large Birds o` Prey
         They will carry us away,
     An` you`ll never see your soldiers any more!
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