Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/357

Rh An' if you treat a nigger to a dose o' cleanin'-rod

'E's like to show you everything 'e owns.

When 'e won't prodooce no more, pour some water on the floor

Where you 'ear it answer 'ollow to the boot

(Cornet: Toot! toot!)—

When the ground begins to sink, shove your baynick down the chink,

An' you're sure to touch the—

(Chorus.) Loo! loo! Lulu! Loot! loot! loot!

Ow the loot! etc.

When from 'ouse to 'ouse you're 'unting, you must always work in pairs—

It 'alves the gain, but safer you will find—

For a single man gets bottled on them twisty-wisty stairs,

An' a woman comes and clobs 'im from be'ind.

When you've turned 'em inside out, an' it seems beyond a doubt

As if there weren't enough to dust a flute

(Cornet: Toot! toot!)—