THE GYPSIES.
How to hell-up and down this damned over, . ... Thru the dust, and the rain and tho heat', And wo always 'break camp on a Sunday, Like the ” ©fillys ’’that pray in the street. 5 We moan and wo ; snarl and wo bicker, \ > •' Like :hdbba, we’ve no fixed abode, // ' /\ Our tents they are almost in tatters,. While our gear leaves a trail on the road / And our beer is always short-rationed, What : we thio vs. on the ships is .a* crime, We’re ” Poster’© bad boys, that’s what-we- are, Yob, they; give us a bloody rough time. <’i believe we’re tho bums of No cal 1, The gypsies, the ” Knights of the Winch ”, ’’Hara oases ” and ” boozers” and gamblers , ? Still wo’rd useful and sharp in a pinch, . •sbo wo scoff at our critics and curse them, Our Sergo aAt a .all love us, wo know, '' ■ ; * And tho 00 thinks we’re 'the catswhiskers', ? , ; ///? I once heard him toll ” We sty ” so. How I give you a toast to the ” Wharf io s ”, The ” Sundowns ra of .ths Third Div J', . Tho" Gypsy Boys” of the Pacific, 5 ' ?••■■■. ; . • ■ < • .Where tho»ro ’e‘(frienna usage they live. • • ; Spr.P.A.Hirtzoll.
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 2, 11 December 1943, Page 4
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