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Now 'is work begins at Gawd knows when, and 'is work is never through;
'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew.
'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite--soldier an' sailor too!

An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds of things,
Like landin' 'isself with a Gatlin' gun to talk to them 'eathen kings;
'E sleeps in an 'ammick instead of a cot, an' 'e drills with the deck
on a slew,
An' 'e sweats like a Jolly--'Er Majesty's Jolly--soldier an' sailor
too!
For there isn't a job on the top o' the earth the beggar don't know,
nor do.
You can leave 'im at night on a bald man's 'ead, to paddle 'is own
canoe;
'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse--soldier an' sailor too.

We've fought 'em on trooper, we've fought 'em in dock, an' drunk with
'em in betweens,
When they called us the seasick scull'ry maids, an' we called 'em the
Ass Marines;
But, when we was down for a double fatigue, from Woolwich to
Bernardmyo,
We sent for the Jollies--'Er Majesty's Jollies--soldier an' sailor too!
They think for 'emselves, an' they steal for 'emselves, and they never
ask what's to do,
But they're camped an' fed an' they're up an' fed before our bugle's
blew.
Ho! they ain't no limpin' procrastitutes--soldier an' sailor too.

You may say we are fond of an 'arness-cut, or 'ootin' in barrick-yards,
Or startin' a Board School mutiny along o' the Onion Guards;
But once in a while we can finish in style for the ends of the earth
to view,
The same as the Jollies--'er Majesty's Jollies--soldier an' sailor too!
They come of our lot, they was brothers to us; they was beggars we'd
met an' knew;
Yes, barrin' an inch in the chest an' the arms, they was doubles o' me
an' you;
For they weren't no special chrysanthemums--soldier an' sailor too!

To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about,
Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to
shout;
But to stand an' be still to the _Birken'ead_ drill is a damn tough
bullet to chew,
An' they done it, the Jollies--'Er Majesty's Jollies--soldier an'
sailor too!
Their work was done when it 'adn't begun; they was