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TOMMY
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Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face:
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.

  For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ‘Chuck him out, the brute!’
  But it’s ‘Saviour of ’is country,’ when the guns begin to shoot;
  An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
  An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool—you bet that Tommy sees!