SHILLIN’ A DAY
201
When we rode Hell-for-leather
Both squadrons together,
That didn’t care whether we lived or we died.
But it’s no use desparin’, my wife must go charin’
An’ me commissairin’ the pay-bills to better,
So if me you be’old
In the wet and the cold,
By the Grand Metropold won’t you give me a letter?
(Full Chorus.) Give ’im a letter—
(Full Chorus.) Can’t do no better
(Full Chorus.) Late Troop-Sergeant Major an’—runs with a letter!
(Full Chorus.) Think what ’e’s been,
(Full Chorus.) Think what ’e’s seen,
(Full Chorus.) Think of his pension an’
(Full Chorus.) Gawd Save The Queen!
Both squadrons together,
That didn’t care whether we lived or we died.
But it’s no use desparin’, my wife must go charin’
An’ me commissairin’ the pay-bills to better,
So if me you be’old
In the wet and the cold,
By the Grand Metropold won’t you give me a letter?
(Full Chorus.) Give ’im a letter—
(Full Chorus.) Can’t do no better
(Full Chorus.) Late Troop-Sergeant Major an’—runs with a letter!
(Full Chorus.) Think what ’e’s been,
(Full Chorus.) Think what ’e’s seen,
(Full Chorus.) Think of his pension an’
(Full Chorus.) Gawd Save The Queen!
