Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/390

 ROUTE MARCHN'

marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,

A little front o' Christmas time an' just be'ind the Rains,

Ho! get away, you bullock-man, you've 'eard the bugle blowed,

There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road;

With its best foot first

And the road a-sliding past,

An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;

While the Big Drum says,

With 'is "rowdy-dowdy-dow!"—

"Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argyjow?"

Oh, there's them Injian temples to admire when you see,

There's the peacock round the corner an' the monkey up the tree, 206