Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/340

 SCREW-GUNS

' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,

I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,

With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets

It's only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets—'Tss! Tss!

For you all love the screw-guns, the screw-guns they all love you!

So when we call round with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo!

Jest send in your Chief an' surrender—it's worse if you fights or you runs:

You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees, but you don't get away from the guns.