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THE MAN WHO KEEPS HIS HEAD


THERE'S a man who fights for England, and
      he'll keep her still atop,
He will guard her from dishonour in the market
      and the shop,
He will save her homes from terror on the fields of
      Daily Bread,
He's the man who sticks to business, he's the man
      who keeps his head.

Let the foe who strikes at England hear her wheels
      of commerce turn,
Let the ships that war with England see her factory
      furnace burn;
For the foe most fears the cannon, and his heart
      most quails with dread
When behind the man in khaki is the man who
      keeps his head.

Brand him traitor and assassin who with miser's
      coward mood
Has his gold locked up in secret and his larders
      stored with food,