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There's a Legion that never was 'listed	A
That carries no colours or crest	A
But split in a thousand detachments	B
Is breaking the road for the rest	A
Our fathers they left us their blessing	C
They taught us and groomed us and crammed	A
But we've shaken the Clubs and the Messes	B
To go and find out and be damned	A
Dear boys	B
To go and get shot and be damned	A
	-
So some of us chivy the slaver	D
And some of us cherish the black	E
And some of us hunt on the Oil Coast	A
And some on the Wallaby track	E
And some of us drift to Sarawak	F
And some of us drift up The Fly	G
And some share our tucker with tigers	B
And some with the gentle Masai	B
Dear boys	B
Take tea with the giddy Masai	B
	-
We've painted The Islands vermilion	H
We've pearled on half shares in the Bay	I
We've shouted on seven ounce nuggets	B
We've starved on a Seedeeboy's pay	I
We've laughed at the world as we found it	A
Its women and cities and men	J
From Sayyid Burgash in a tantrum	K
To the smoke reddened eyes of Loben	J
Dear boys	B
We've a little account with Loben	J
	-
The ends o' the Earth were our portion	J
The ocean at large was our share	D
There was never a skirmish to windward	A
But the Leaderless Legion was there	D
Yes somehow and somewhere and always	B
We were first when the trouble began	J
From a lottery row in Manila	L
To an I D B race on the Pan	J
Dear boys	B
With the Mounted Police on the Pan	J
	-
We preach in advance of the Army	B
We skirmish ahead of the Church	M
With never a gunboat to help us	B
When we're scuppered and left in the lurch	M
But we know as the cartridges finish	N
And we're filed on our last little shelves	B
That the Legion that never was 'listed	A
Will send us as good as ourselves	B
Good men	J
Five hundred as good as ourselves	B
	-
Then a health we must drink it in whispers	B
To our wholly unauthorised horde	A
To the line of our dusty foreloopers	B
The Gentlemen Rovers abroad	A
Yes a health to ourselves ere we scatter	D
For the steamer won't wait for the train	J
And the Legion that never was 'listed	A
Goes back into quarters again	J
'Regards	B
Goes back under canvas again	J
Hurrah	D
The swag and the billy again	J
Here's how	O
The trail and the packhorse again	J
Salue	L
The trek and the laager again	J

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