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It was Christmas Day in the trenches	A
In Spain in Penninsular War	B
And Sam Small were cleaning his musket	C
A thing as he'd ne're done before	B
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They'd had 'em inspected that morning	D
And Sam had got into disgrace	E
For when sergeant had looked down the barrel	F
A sparrow flew out in his face	E
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The sergeant reported the matter	G
To Lieutenant Bird then and there	H
Said Lieutenant 'How very disgusting'	D
The Duke must be told of this 'ere '	-
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The Duke were upset when he heard	I
He said 'I'm astonished I am	J
I must make a most drastic example	F
There'll be no Christmas pudding for Sam '	-
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When Sam were informed of his sentence	K
Surprise rooted him to the spot	L
'Twas much worse than he had expected	M
He thought as he'd only be shot	L
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And so he sat cleaning his musket	C
And polishing barrel and butt	C
While the pudding his mother had sent him	N
Lay there in the mud at his foot	O
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Now the centre that Sam's lot were holding	D
Ran around a place called Badajoz	K
Where the Spaniards had put up a bastion	P
And ooh what a bastion it was	K
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They pounded away all the morning	D
With canister grape shot and ball	Q
But the face of the bastion defied them	R
They made no impression at all	Q
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They started again after dinner	G
Bombarding as hard as they could	S
And the Duke brought his own private cannon	P
But that weren't a ha'pence o' good	S
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The Duke said 'Sam put down thy musket	C
And help me lay this gun true '	-
Sam answered 'You'd best ask your favours	K
From them as you give pudding to '	-
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The Duke looked at Sam so reproachful	Q
'And don't take it that way ' said he	T
'Us Generals have got to be ruthless	K
It hurts me more than it did thee '	-
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Sam sniffed at these words kind of sceptic	D
Then looked down the Duke's private gun	P
And said 'We'd best put in two charges	K
We'll never bust bastion with one '	-
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He tipped cannon ball out of muzzle	Q
He took out the wadding and all	Q
He filled barrel chock full of powder	G
Then picked up and replaced the ball	Q
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He took a good aim at the bastion	P
Then said 'Right o Duke let her fly '	-
The cannon nigh jumped off her trunnions	K
And up went the bastion sky high	U
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The Duke he weren't 'alf elated	M
He danced around trench full of glee	T
And said 'Sam for this gallant action	P
You can hot up your pudding for tea '	-
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Sam looked 'round to pick up his pudding	D
But it wasn't there nowhere about	V
In the place where he thought he had left it	W
Lay the cannon ball he'd just tipped out	V
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Sam saw in a flash what 'ad happened	X
By an unprecedented mishap	Y
The pudding his mother had sent him	N
Had blown Badajoz off map	Y
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That's why fuisilliers wear to this moment	Z
A badge which they think's a grenade	A2
But they're wrong it's a brass reproduction	P
Of the pudding Sam's mother once made	A2

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