"D'ye Ken Jan Smuts"
'EAST AFRICAN TROOPS' MOfcT POPULAR SONG. An officer lias sent to England the following parody on "John Peel." Ho refers to the parody as "the most popular song on tho transport that took the Africander troops to East Africa :— D'ye ken Jan Smuts when he's out with his gun? D'ye ken Jan Smuts with his Foes on the run? D'ye ken Jan Smuts when he's hunting the Hun? With his Horse and his Foot in the morning? Chorus— For the kaiser he started the whole blooming war; So we'll gtrale old Bill till he swanks j no more; And the king shall bo boss where itho Hun was before, When we haul up the Flag in tho morning. And I'll follow Jan Smuts wheresoever I am, For the swamp andi tlie jungle I don't care a d — From Kilimanjaro to Dar-es-Salaain, Till we haul up our Flag in tho I morning. So here's to Jan Smuts, with three British cheers, We wouldn't half sinile if the toast was in beers 1 But mind 1 that no blooming old submarine hears, Or we'll wake u>p in heaven in the morning.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1916, Page 3
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