THE KAISER'S BHOYS

O, the Kaiser's bhoys are marching, “nach Paris” they are going,

But they've sthopped to rest a minit at the Marne and at the Meuse;

And the Gordons and the Ministers are thryin’ to entertain them,

For they've every kind of “record” that the Teutons want to choose;

They have battle cries that sounded for centuries in the Highlands,

They have war cries fierce and stirring as the breath of Munster gales;

They are shoutin’ to the heavens, and they're shoutin’ to the Kaiser,

“Faugh-a-ballagh!” sons of Odin, or we'll tie you up like bales.

O, the Kaiser's bhoys are dramin’ of a naval base at Calais,

But they wakin’ ivery mornin’ full of sorrow and of gloom;

For the little Belgian sojers cut the dykes and flood their trenches,

And they find their dugouts only jist a bathtub or a tomb.

But they're makin’ progress backward, “nach Berlin” they are going,

With their “Landsturms” and their “Land-wehrs,” keepin’ sthep in dim grey line;

And they'll know far more of Britain and her brood of lions snarlin’,

When they find themselves “su Hause” jist beyant

“Die Wacht am Rhein.”