THE JOHN BULL STORE.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1053, 21 November 1903, Page 4

THE JOHN BULL STORE.

(The popular music-hall song.) When our Nelson kept the British (lag a-dying, When we hammered Boney on the shore, There were traders coming hat m hand a-buying At the counter o( the Joim Bull Store. Though we won supremacy, over loes by land and sea They were begging for the things we maxle ; For the .German, Yank, and Kuss though they fought and , hated us, Weren't a patch upon John Bud at Buy !, buy ! buy ! at the John Bull Store, The Deutscher and the Yank we shall want no more ; And the money that we gain will in British hands remain If we buy at the John Bull Store

But an altered tale our present day was telling, For the Empire’s glory seemed to fade ; We were buying where we used to go a-selliug, And the foreigners had grabbed our trade. Just when things were looking black, and the orders getting slack, Came a champion leaping to the fore. With an eye-glass in his eye that the quicker he could spy Wliat was wanting in the John Bull Store. (Chorus.)

And he made a plan to draw, our lads together, All the Empire standing hand in hand,. That our trade may grow in good and evil weather, And Fortune smile upon our land. Now, our “ Joe ” is straight and square, and he’s always played us fair When we’ve trusted him with jobs before; So I trust that all will aid in the little plan he’s made For bringing trade to John Bull’s store. (Chorus.)