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SNIPER SANDY
(Sergeant Alexander Macdonald, Killed in Action at Beaumont-Hamel, November 18th, 1916)
Tune—“Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers”
SANDY MAC the sniper is a-sniping from his loop-hole,
With a telescopic rifle he is looking for a Hun.
If he sees a sniper lurking, or a working-party working,
At once he opens fire on them, and bags them every one.
And when you come into our trench, by night-time or by day,
We take you to his loop-hole, and we point to him and say—
With a telescopic rifle he is looking for a Hun.
If he sees a sniper lurking, or a working-party working,
At once he opens fire on them, and bags them every one.
And when you come into our trench, by night-time or by day,
We take you to his loop-hole, and we point to him and say—
Chorus—
Chorus—“Sniper Sandy’s slaying Saxon soldiers,
Chorus—And Saxon soldiers seldom show but Sandy slays a few,
Chorus—And every day the Bosches put up little wooden crosses
Chorus—In the cemetery for Saxon soldiers Sniper Sandy slew.”
Chorus—“Sniper Sandy’s slaying Saxon soldiers,
Chorus—And Saxon soldiers seldom show but Sandy slays a few,
Chorus—And every day the Bosches put up little wooden crosses
Chorus—In the cemetery for Saxon soldiers Sniper Sandy slew.”
Now in the German trenches there’s a sniper they call Hermann,
A stout and stolid Saxon with a healthy growth of beard,
A stout and stolid Saxon with a healthy growth of beard,
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