Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/383

Rh I comed away like a bleedin' toff,

For I got four niggers to carry me off,

As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough,

When the Widow give the party.

"What was the end of all the show,

Johnnie, Johnnie?"

Ask my Colonel, for I don't know,

Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha!

We broke a King and we built a road—

A court-house stands where the reg'ment goed.

And the river's clean where the raw blood flowed

When the Widow give the party.

(Bugle.) Ta—rara—ra-ra-rara!