16 Jun 04 - 06:49 AM (#1208392) Subject: Lyr Add: THE NOODLE From: *#1 PEASANT* 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 |