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There was two-an'-thirty sergeants,

There was corp'rals forty-one,

There was just nine 'undred rank an' file

To swear to a touch o' sun.

There was me 'e 'd kissed in the sentry-box,

As I 'ave not told in my song,

But I took my oath, which were Bible truth,

I 'adn't seen nothin' wrong.

There's them that's 'ot an' 'aughty,

There's them that's cold an' 'ard,

But there comes a night when the best gets tight,

And then turns out the Guard.