FIFES AND DRUMS
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Fighting!—What are they fighting, there, for?
Eho!—Eho!—Pata, pata, plan!
To make men free men, now and evermore:
Vive la—Vive la France!
The Kaiser and his kaiserlings they guessed that they would go
And ring the Paris Christmas bells, a-laying churches low;
But Papa Joffre beside the Marne stood up and said: No, no!
A bas les Boches! Vive la France!
Vive la—Vive la France!
Cheering!—What are they cheering, there, for?
Hurrah!—Hurrah!—Hip, hip, hip, Hurrah!
Red, white, blue flags—flaming for the war:
Vive la—Vive la France!
Jack Poilu he's a true lad, as Papa Joffre has tried;