THE ENGINEERS SONG

CHORUS
WE ARE, WE ARE, WE ARE, WE ARE, WE ARE THE ENGINEERS,
WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN DEMOLISH FORTY BEERS,
DRINK RUM, DRINK RUM, DRINK RUM AND COME ALONG WITH US,
FOR WE DON’T GIVE A DAMN FOR ANY OLD MAN WHO DON’T GIVE A DAMN FOR
US.

My father was a hunter practising to shoot
My mother was a mistress from a house of ill repute
The last time that I saw them these words rang in my ear
Get out of here you son of a bitch and join the Engineers.

A maiden and an engineer were sitting in the park
The engineer was busy doing research after dark
His scientific method was a marvel to observe
While his right hand wrote the figures his left hand traced the curve.

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride
To show the local citizens the colour of her hide
My father who was standing there an engineer of course
Was the only one noticed that Godiva rode a horse.
                
She said "I've come a long way and I will go as far
With the man who takes me from this horse and takes me to a bar"
The man who took her from her horse and shouted her a beer
was a well dressed perfect gentleman***a drunken engineer.

Moses was a baby, in a basket he was found,
By the Pharaoh's daughter with the rushes all around,
She showed him to her father who gave a mighty sneer
He said the little basket is the work of an engineer.

Kinsey was a doctor who wrote a long report
On sex and other forms of sport
He said that 66% of us all are really very queer
The other 24% are bloody Engineers.

Sabrina was a lady with a 42 inch bust
Structurally unstable and insecurely trussed
The local Council said that wasn't right
So they sent an engineer to inspect her every night.

The Army and the Navy were out to have some fun
Down at the local pub where the firely liquors run
But all they found were empties, for the Engineers had come
And traded their instruments in for gallon kegs of rum.

Francis Drake and all his ships set out for Cadiz Bay
They heard the Spanish Rum Fleet was heading that way
But the Engineers had them beat by a night and half a day
And though they drank for all that time, you still could hear them
say ********

Now Caesar went to Egypt at the age of fifty three
But Cleopatra's heart was warm and young and free
And every night when Julius said "Good Night" at 3 o'clock
There was a Roman Engineer waiting around the Block.


She wears her silk pyjamas in the summer when it's hot,
She wears her wool pyjamas in the winter when it's not,
But sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall,
She slips between the sheets with nothing on at all.
Glory how I'd like to be there
Glory how I'd like to be there
Glory how I'd like to be there
In the springtime and the fall.

c2002. The RAE Waterloo Dinner. p.17. MS-Word document with
history and songs of the Royal Australian Engineers. The tune is not
indicated but the "She wears her silk pyjamas..." is universally sung
to "John Brown's Body". I converted the word document to PDF for
archival purposes.


See here: https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/2000s/2002ca_RAE_songs_and_cadences_(WORD)/2002ca_rae_songs_and_cadences.pdf