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Success to Colonel Baden Powell and his praises loudly sing	A
For being so brave in relieving Mafeking	A
With his gallant little band of eight hundred men	B
They made the Boers fly from Mafeking like sheep escaping from a pen	B
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'Twas in the year of and on the th of May	C
That Colonel Baden Powell beat the Boers without dismay	C
And made them fly from Mafeking without delay	C
Which will be handed down to posterity for many a day	C
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Colonel Baden Powell is a very brave man	D
And to deny it I venture to say few men can	D
He is a noble hero be it said	E
For at the siege of Mafeking he never was afraid	F
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And during the siege Colonel Baden was cheerful and gay	C
While the starving population were living on brawn each day	C
And alas the sufferings of the women and children were great	G
But they all submitted patiently to their fate	G
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For seven months besieged they fought the Boers without dismay	C
Until at last the Boers were glad to run away	C
Because Baden Powell's gallant band put them to flight	H
By cannon shot and volleys of musketry to the left and right	H
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Then long live Baden Powell and his brave little band	I
For during the siege of Mafeking they made a bold stand	I
Against yelling thousands of Boers who were thirsting for their blood	J
But as firm as a rock against them they fearlessly stood	K
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Oh think of them living on brawn extracted from horse hides	L
While the inhuman Boers their sufferings deride	M
Knowing that the women's hearts with grief were torn	N
As they looked on their children's faces that looked sad and forlorn	N
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For days the Boers tried to obtain Mafeking's surrender	O
But their strategy was futile owing to its noble defender	O
Colonel Baden Powell that hero of renown	P
Who by his masterly generalship saved the town	P
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Methinks I see him and his gallant band	I
Looking terror to the foe Oh The sight was really grand	I
As he cried Give it them lads let's do or die	Q
And from Mafeking we'll soon make them fly	Q
And we'll make them rue their rash undertaking	A
The day they laid siege to the town of Mafeking	A
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Long life and prosperity to Colonel Baden Powell	R
For there's very few generals can him excel	S
And he is now the Hero of Mafeking be it told	T
And his name should be engraved on medals of gold	T
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I wish him and his gallant little band every success	U
For relieving the people of Mafeking while in distress	U
They made the Boers rue their rash undertaking	A
The day they laid siege to the town of Mafeking	A
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For during the defence of Mafeking	A
From grief he kept the people's hearts from breaking	A
Because he sang to them and did recite	H
Passages from Shakespeare which did their hearts delight	H

William Topaz Mcgonagall

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