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 They never thinks uv other ways, But does it brave an' bold. That's 'arf; an' for the other part Yeh got to go back to the start.

Yeh've got to go right back to Dad, To Gran'dad and the pioneers, 'Oo packed up all their bag uv tricks An' come out 'ere in sixty-six. An' battled thro' the years; Our Gran'dads; and their women, too, That 'ad the grit to face the new.

It's that old stock; an', more than that. It's Bill an' Jim an' ev'ry son Gettin' three good meat meals a day An' 'eaps uv chance to go an' play Out in the bonzer sun. It's partly that; but, don't, forget, When it's all said, there's somethin' yet.

There's somethin' yet; an' there I'm beat. Crowds uv these lads I've known, but then. They 'ave got somethin' from this war, Somethin' they never 'ad before, That makes 'em better men. Better? There's no word I can get To name it right. There's somethin' yet.