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Thread #172105   Message #4164726
Posted By: and e
09-Feb-23 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind)
The Army Dance:

First there came the general's wife,
And she was dressed in grey, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had a brewer's dray, sir.

Next there came the colonel's wife,
And she was dressed in red, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had a feather bed, sir.

Next there came the major's wife,
And she was dressed in pink, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had a kitchen sink, sir.

Next there came the captain's wife,
And she was dressed in blue, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had some four-by-two, sir,

Next there came the sergeant's wife,
And she was dressed in black, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had a chimney stack, sir.

Next there came the corporal's wife,
And she was dressed in brown, sir,
And in her quite enormous quim,
She had all Tidworth town, sir.


Posted here. It is supposed to be from The Faber Book of War Poetry.