The Noodle
Tune- "Jeannette and Jeannot."

You're going to be a Noodle bold, a valiant Volunteer;
You think you'll have a lazy week, and get your swig of beer.
But you'll fight your battles o'er your pipe, and ne'er receive a scar,
You blue-tail bumbler, cock-tail tumbler, dare not go to war.

When you wear the dirty whites, and the sloggerin' jacket blue,
I fear that you will then forget what we may think of you.
With your musket backside first, and your bayonet, lord knows where,
You'll be marching like a hero, to make the lasses stare.

When the trumpet sounds for glory, you'll be madly rushing in
To atkins' or to Thomas's, to spend your hard-earned tin:
And there you'll sit caroussing till you're turned out at night,
We knowing it is better far to fuddle than to fight.

I would I were oour noble Queen much better Matty Bell,
I'd send such would-be warriors to a place I dare not tell;
All the town should be at peace, and the fellows who compose
The swaggerin' volunteers should find themselves in meat and clothes.

-Gilroy, 1853