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Ta ra Boom boom A regiment is coming down the street	A
From every side an eager throng is hurrying to greet	A
From overflowing sidewalk and densely crowded square	B
A brilliant uniformed cortege whose music fills the air	B
For such a gorgeous spectacle is not seen every day	C
It gives the town a festival to view the fine array	C
All hearts are filled with happiness and no one seems to lag	D
When he has thus a chance to see the soldiers and the flag	D
The old retired officers their hats like helmets worn	E
Have thrust them gaily on one side at sound of drum and horn	E
The eldest whose brave heart is stirred by that familiar strain	F
Surmounts with stifled sigh his chair a better view to gain	F
Cafes salons mansards alike their windows open throw	G
And pretty girls wear radiant smiles to greet the passing show	G
Ah here they are Yes here they come preceded by the boys	H
Who imitate in fashion droll yet with no actual noise	H
But merely by the gesturing of finger or of hand	I
The cymbals flute and best of all the trombones of the band	I
The babies even laugh and crow upheld in nurses' arms	J
And have no fear of trumpets loud or the bass drum's alarms	J
The pavement of the boulevard is struck in perfect time	K
Six hundred echoes blend in one and make the scene sublime	K
Six hundred hearts are throbbing there imbued with martial pride	L
Twelve hundred feet with rhythmic beat make but a single stride	L
United too are all the hearts of those whose eyes pursue	M
With admiration every line now passing in review	M
But when a gallant regiment appears thus on parade	N
A little vain of its fine looks and conscious of its grade	N
Each soldier since a time of peace allows him to be gay	C
Aspires to be attentive to the ladies on the way	C
And stares at every pretty face with no wish to be rude	O
But then you know a regiment is never quite a prude	O
And this explains why Captain Short has said to Captain Tall	P
Despite the order which enjoins strict silence upon all	P
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A lovely girl Is that so Where Beside the window there	B
By Jove I'd like to know her She is divinely fair	B
Then both a little thoughtfully move on with some regret	Q
And now the entire regiment the lovely girl has met	Q
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Across the broad resplendent ranks she looks now left now right	R
Now straight before her but as yet no smiles her features light	R
More than one mounted officer with flashing sabre wheels	S
His well groomed horse and calls to him the sergeant at his heels	S
And makes excuse of some detail endeavoring the while	T
Perhaps half consciously to win the favor of a smile	T
In vain the glance he hopes to gain as hero of her heart	U
Comes not but rank forbids delay he must at once depart	U
The Colonel even has remarked this charming thoughtful girl	V
And gives to his fine gray moustache the customary twirl	V
A handsome man with uniform whose gilded lustre shines	W
From clanking spur to epaulette with stars and golden lines	W
He knows how potent is the spell such ornaments impart	U
To make of soldiers demi gods in woman's gentle heart	U
The Flag The Flag The crowd is thrilled to see it now advance	X
Hail Colors of the Fatherland Hail Banner of Fair France	X
Hail wounded emblem of the brave blood red and heaven's blue	M
And purest white the noble Flag now waving in our view	M
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Standard sublime that moves all hearts as now thy form unrolls	X
Our dead seem shrouded in thy folds stirred by the breath of souls	X
The color bearer young as Hope and still a charming boy	Y
In rhythm to the beating hearts and symphony of joy	Y
Sways gently as he bears it on the emblem of a land	I
Whose sons will in united ranks all enemies withstand	I
The young lieutenant on whose face the standard's shadow falls	X
Knows well it makes him pass admired between those human walls	X
And that its presence lifts him high above the rank and file	T
And gains for him a sentiment worth many a pretty smile	T
That girl has smiled the Colonel thinks but on whom' Who can tell	Z
It is the bearer of the flag on whom her favor fell	Z
Exclaims the Captain who then adds Great Heavens worse than this	X
She has not only smiled but now she really throws a kiss	X
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The Colonel somewhat bent with years sits up and swells his chest	A2
A charming girl a sergeant cries and tries to look his best	A2
Each soldier if a comrade laughs a rival seems to fear	B2
The chief of a battalion looks and makes his charger rear	B2
While several soldiers thus assume an air of martial pride	L
The color bearer whom the band has quite electrified	L
Caresses with a trembling hand the down upon his lip	C2
In doing which he rashly lets the tattered banner dip	C2
But she has seen within its folds thus torn with shell and shot	D2
The soul of one she dearly loved who dead at Gravelotte	D2
Returned no more but sleeps to day within an unknown grave	E2
The maiden's kiss was for the Flag the death shroud of the brave	E2
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Translated from the poem by Jean Aicard entitled Le Baiser au Drapeau	G

John L. Stoddard

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