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Ye Sons of Great Britain come join with me	A
And King in praise of the gallant British Armie	A
That behaved right manfully in the Soudan	B
At the great battle of Omdurman	B
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'Twas in the year of and on the nd of September	C
Which the Khalifa and his surviving followers will long remember	C
Because Sir Herbert Kitchener has annihilated them outright	D
By the British troops and Soudanese in the Omdurman fight	D
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The Sirdar and his Army left the camp in grand array	E
And marched on to Omdurman without delay	E
Just as the brigades had reached the crest adjoining the Nile	F
And became engaged with the enemy in military style	F
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The Dervishes had re formed under cover of a rocky eminence	G
Which to them no doubt was a strong defence	H
And they were massed together in battle array	E
Around the black standard of the Khalifa which made a grand display	E
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But General Maxwell's Soudanese brigade seized the eminence in a short time	A
And General Macdonald's brigade then joined the firing line	B
And in ten minutes long before the attack could be driven home	A
The flower of the Khalifa's army was almost overthrown	B
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Still manfully the dusky warriors strove to make headway	E
But the Soudanese troops and British swept them back without dismay	E
And their main body were mown down by their deadly fire	C
But still the heroic Dervishes refused to retire	I
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And defiantly they planted their standards and died by them	A
To their honour be it said just like brave men	B
But at last they retired with their hearts full of woe	J
Leaving the field white with corpses like a meadow dotted with snow	J
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The chief heroes in the fight were the st Lancers	K
They made a brilliant charge on the enemy with ringing cheers	L
And through the dusky warriors bodies their lances they did thrust	M
Whereby many of them were made to lick the dust	M
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Then at a quarter past eleven the Sirdar sounded the advance	N
And the remnant of the Dervishes fled which was their only chance	N
While the cavalry cut off their retreat while they ran	B
Then the Sirdar with the black standard of the Khalifa headed for Omdurman	B
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And when the Khalifa saw his noble army cut down	B
With rage and grief he did fret and frown	B
Then he spurred his noble steed and swiftly it ran	B
While inwardly to himself he cried Catch me if you can	B
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And Mahdism now has received a crushing blow	J
For the Khalifa and his followers have met with a complete overthrow	J
And General Gordon has been avenged the good Christian	B
By the defeat of the Khalifa at the battle of Omdurman	B
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Now since the Khalifa has been defeated and his rule at an end	O
Let us thank God that fortunately did send	O
The brave Sir Herbert Kitchener to conquer that bad man	B
The inhuman Khalifa and his followers at the battle of Omdurman	B
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Success to Sir Herbert Kitchener he is a great commander	C
And as skilful in military tactics as the great Alexander	C
Because he devised a very wise plan	B
And by it has captured the town of Omdurman	B
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I wish success to the British and Soudanese Army	A
May God protect them by land and by sea	A
May he enable them always to conquer the foe	J
And to establish what's right wherever they go	J

William Topaz Mcgonagall

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