'SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO'
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile,
I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style,
'E was scrapin' the paint from off of 'er plates, an' I sez to 'im, ''Oo are you?'
Sez 'e, 'I'm a Jolly—'Er Majesty's Jolly—soldier an' sailor too!'
Now 'is work begins by Gawd knows when, and 'is work is never through;
'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew.
'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite—soldier an' sailor too!
An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds of things,
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