Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/390

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ROUTE MARCHN'

We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,
A little front o' Christmas time an' just be'ind the Rains,
Ho! get away, you bullock-man, you've 'eard the bugle blowed,
There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road;
With its best foot first
And the road a-sliding past,
An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;
While the Big Drum says,
With 'is "rowdy-dowdy-dow!"—
"Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argyjow?"


Oh, there's them Injian temples to admire when you see,

There's the peacock round the corner an' the monkey up the tree,

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