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You couldn't pack a Broadwood half a mile	A
You mustn't leave a fiddle in the damp	B
You couldn't raft an organ up the Nile	A
And play it in an Equatorial swamp	C
I travel with the cooking pots and pails	D
I'm sandwiched 'tween the coffee and the pork	E
And when the dusty column checks and tails	D
You should hear me spur the rear guard to a walk	F
With my quot Pilly willy winky winky popp quot	G
Oh it's any tune that comes into my head	G
So I keep 'em moving forward till they drop	H
So I play 'em up to water and to bed	G
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In the silence of the camp before the fight	G
When it's good to make your will and say your prayer	I
You can hear my strumpty tumpty overnight	G
Explaining ten to one was always fair	I
I'm the Prophet of the Utterly Absurd	G
Of the Patently Impossible and Vain	J
And when the Thing that Couldn't has occurred	G
Give me time to change my leg and go again	K
With my quot Tumpa tumpa tumpa tum pa tump quot	G
In the desert where the dung fed camp smoke curled	G
There was never voice before us till I led our lonely chorus	L
I the war drum of the White Man round the world	G
	-
By the bitter road the Younger Son must tread	G
Ere he win to hearth and saddle of his own	M
'Mid the riot of the shearers at the shed	G
In the silence of the herder's hut alone	M
In the twilight on a bucket upside down	N
Hear me babble what the weakest won't confess	O
I am Memory and Torment I am Town	N
I am all that ever went with evening dress	O
With my quot Tunk a tunka tunka tunka tunk quot	G
So the lights the London Lights grow near and plain	J
So I rowel 'em afresh towards the Devil and the Flesh	P
Till I bring my broken rankers home again	K
	-
In desire of many marvels over sea	Q
Where the new raised tropic city sweats and roars	R
I have sailed with Young Ulysses from the quay	Q
Till the anchor rumbled down on stranger shores	R
He is blooded to the open and the sky	S
He is taken in a snare that shall not fail	T
He shall hear me singing strongly till he die	S
Like the shouting of a backstay in a gale	T
With my quot Hya Heeya Heeya Hullah Haul quot	S
O the green that thunders aft along the deck	U
Are you sick o' towns and men You must sign and sail again	K
For it's quot Johnny Bowlegs pack your kit and trek quot	S
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Through the gorge that gives the stars at noon day clear	V
Up the pass that packs the scud beneath our wheel	W
Round the bluff that sinks her thousand fathom sheer	V
Down the valley with our guttering brakes asqueal	W
Where the trestle groans and quivers in the snow	X
Where the many shedded levels loop and twine	Y
So I lead my reckless children from below	X
Till we sing the Song of Roland to the pine	Y
With my quot Tinka tinka tinka tinka tink quot	S
And the axe has cleared the mountain croup and crest	S
So we ride the iron stallions down to drink	Z
Through the ca nons to the waters of the West	S
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And the tunes that mean so much to you alone	M
Common tunes that make you choke and blow your nose	A2
Vulgar tunes that bring the laugh that brings the groan	M
I can rip your very heartstrings out with those	A2
With the feasting and the folly and the fun	B2
And the lying and the lusting and the drink	Z
And the merry play that drops you when you're done	B2
To the thoughts that burn like irons if you think	Z
With my quot Plunka lunka lunka lunka lunk quot	S
Here's a trifle on account of pleasure past	S
Ere the wit that made you win gives you eyes to see your sin	C2
And the heavier repentance at the last	S
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Let the organ moan her sorrow to the roof	D2
I have told the naked stars the Grief of Man	E2
Let the trumpets snare the foeman to the proof	D2
I have known Defeat and mocked it as we ran	E2
My bray ye may not alter nor mistake	F2
When I stand to jeer the fatted Soul of Things	G2
But the Song of Lost Endeavour that I make	F2
Is it hidden in the twanging of the strings	G2
With my quot Ta ra rara rara ra ra rrrp quot	S
Is it naught to you that hear and pass me by	S
But the word the word is mine when the order moves the line	Y
And the lean locked ranks go roaring down to die	S
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Of the driven dust of speech I make a flame	H2
And a scourge of broken withes that men let fall	W
For the words that had no honour till I came	H2
Lo I raise them into honour over all	W
By the wisdom of the centuries I speak	I2
To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth	J2
I the joy of life unquestioned I the Greek	I2
I the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth	J2
With my quot Tinka tinka tinka tinka tink quot	S
What d'ye lack my noble masters What d'ye lack	K2
So I draw the world together link by link	Z
Yea from Delos up to Limerick and back	K2

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