Swinging the Lead
by A.B. Banjo Paterson (1917)
Said the soldier to the Surgeon, "I've got noises in me
head
And a kind o' filled up feeling after every time I'm fed;
I can sleep all night on picket, but I can't sleep in my
bed."
And the Surgeon said,
"That's Lead!"
Said the soldier to the Surgeon, "Do you think they'll send
me back?
For I really ain't adapted to be carrying a pack
Though I've humped a case of whisky half a mile upon my
back."
And the Surgeon said,
"That's Lead!"
"And my legs have swelled up cruel, I can hardly walk at
all,
But when the Taubes come over you should see me start to
crawl;
When we're sprinting for the dugout, I can easy beat 'em
all."
And the Surgeon said,
"That's Lead!"
So they sent him to the trenches where he landed safe and
sound,
And he drew his ammunition, just about two fifty round:
"Oh Sergeant, what's this heavy stuff I've got to hump
around?"
And the Sergeant said,
"That's Lead!"
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