Vulgar words in War Rhymes by Wayfarer (Page 1)
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The Cockney Canuck from Toronto, Whom Maple leaves hardly stick on to, Made haste to enlist, To fight the mailed fist, When Canadian born didn't want to.
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=RECRUITING APPEALS= JACK CANUCK October, 1914 "Only forty per cent of the volunteers at Valcartier are Canadian born."
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Our Jack Canuck is active, He plays a pretty goal, But make swift runs to cover When drums begin to roll.
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And Jack Canuck's unselfish, He lets the honors go All to his British brother, When war time bugles blow.
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And Jack Canuck is modest; That's why he chooses rears, And sees the front seats taken By British volunteers.
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Yes, Jack Canuck's a hero Whose glory never fades; He'll lick his weight in wild cats --The day his lodge parades.
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And Jack Canuck's free handed He sends, (Jack's awful wise), His dumpling dust in ship loads; (It pays to advertise).
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For Jack Canuck is thrifty, He wants, when peace is made, To feed the worn out nations, And capture all the trade.
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And Miss Canuck and Mrs., They value so the lives Of husband, son and sweetheart, These daughters, maids and wives.
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Not one from danger blenches, They vie in skill and pluck And when they reach the trenches, We call them all Canuck.
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JACK CANUCK TO UNCLE SAM April, 1916 Take down your old gun, Uncle Sammy, All your pockets with cartridges cram; The war fogs that rise, cold and clammy, Seem to frighten you some, Uncle Sam.
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Abstemious, very, when prices are high, He learns to be merry without any pie; An expert at poker, with money to spare, A down and out broker who plays solitaire; An orator forceful, a whale to invent, O Sammy's resourceful, a versatile gent, Though late in the race, Sam, we wish you good luck, Come on, take your place, Sam, with Johnnie Canuck.
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In dear old France, the Huns advance With bullet, bomb and gas, Jean, It's hardly square that you're not there; (Hank Bourassa's an ass, Jean.)
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WHAT WE WON Was it for this, I want to know, We saw our boys to Flanders go; For this that Belgium suffered so, That France withstood the ruthless foe, And said "No further shalt thou go," That Serbia was plunged in woe, And women wept along the Po; That Poles were herded to and fro, And Anzacs died at Gallipo; That Britain let her plans all go, Laid bare her breast, and took the blow, And held the seas 'neath sun and snow Danger above and death below; That Uncle Sam, though rather slow To scrap the doctrine of Monroe, Got busy at the final show?
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Vell, I hold von whole trench py mineself, Mit some poys dat shoost come to de front; Britty soon dey get laid on de shelf, Den your Fritz have to do be beeg shtunt.
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If in Dublin a feller rebels, Britty soon on a rope he vill shwing, But go free, so mine newsbaper tells, If in Ulster he do de same ting.
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INDEX TO WAR RHYMES Foreword Page Modern Diplomacy 5 The Allied Forces 6 The Modern Good Samaritan 8 Satan's Soliloquy 9 The Canadian Way 10 The English Woman's Complaint 11 Unemployed 12 The Hate of Hans 13 Hans Begins to Wonder 14 =Recruiting Appeals= Jack Canuck 18 What Owest Thou?
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19 A Call to the Colors 20 Choose Ye 21 The Slacker's Son 22 Blasted Hopes 23 Langemark 24 The Canadian Army 25 Fight or Pay 26 =Rhymes for Children= Hunting the Were-Wolf 30 Johnnie's Grouch 31 The Trench that Fritz Built 32 =Nursery Rhymes--Up-to-Date= Ten Little Slackers 34 Jingles 35 =Miscellaneous= Bedlam 38 The Certainties 39 The Friendly Spies 40 Jack Canuck to Uncle Sam 41 Sammy 42 France to Columbia 43 Jim's Sacrifice 44 The Orgy of Thor 45 Motes and Beams 46 Nurse Cavell 47 'Twas Ever Thus 48 Ego 49 Freedom 50 Twenty Years After 50 Faith 51 Everybody Helping 52 The World's Overdraft 53 Slackers 54 The Loyal Blacks 55 The Troubles of Tino 56 Has the World Gone Mad?