The Recruit
Drilling. Drilling. Drilling. 3 Every day’s the same. Marching here, marching there; 1 What a bloody game ! Blisters big as pennies, Tongue half hanging out, . Sweating like a stallion Won’t some blighter shout? ® Doubling. Doubling. Doubling. I In the heat and dust. 1 Panting like a walrus, Streuth ! My heart’ll bust. ’ Eyes all bleared and grimy, Stomach in a whirl, Strike me pink !_ I’m barmy— Ain’t this life a pearl! ) ? _ Standing. Standing. Standing. i In the blasted rain. t While the Colonel orders, , "Do it once again. Moving off in sections, 1 Floundering in the mud, . Cursing him to Hades, j Frothing for his blood. ' Marching. Marching. Marching. ( To our rendezvous, ■ Nostrils wide extended Sniff the juicy stew. 1 Bunkers now replenished, • ; ' Feeling good again; ' Let' the colonel josh us — 1 We don’t mind the rain. Singing* Singing: rSinging, -• 'Life it ain’t so glum; Hear the pipes a-skirling, Hear the throbbing drum. Chests are xow expanding, Horizons are blue; Look out Mister Hitler, We’re coming after you. . . Haven.
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Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 16 October 1942, Page 1
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170The Recruit Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 16 October 1942, Page 1
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