Recessional Lyrics

For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift Running, Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning! For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew ...Read Full Lyrics

Then we brought the lances down--then the trumpets blew-- When we went to Kandahar, ridin' two an' two. Ridin'--ridin'--ridin' two an' two! Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-a! All the way to ...Read Full Lyrics

At the hole where he went in Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: "Nag, come up and dance with death! " Eye to eye and head to head, (Keep the mea...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care-- When first he planned his home, What City should arise and bear The weight and state of Rome. A shiftless, westward-wandering tramp, Che...Read Full Lyrics

Marching Song of a Roman Legion of the Later Empire When I left Rome for Lalage's sake, By the Legions' Road to Rimini, She vowed her heart was mine to take With me and my ...Read Full Lyrics

1903 -- After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for my father's sake, In Rimmon's House I bow. The curtains par...Read Full Lyrics

Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy our pranceful bands? Don't you wish you had extra hands? Would n't you like if your tails were --...Read Full Lyrics

1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne This way! Armies dead and Cities dead, past all cou...Read Full Lyrics

When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created the Engineer, Her Majesty's Royal Engineer, With the rank and pay of...Read Full Lyrics

Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule, With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forget...Read Full Lyrics