Wars > Crimean War (1853-1856)

          JOHN BULL
And his German Legion,

Old Farmer Bull come wheel about,
With your sausages and sour crout
And make the cursed Russians scout;
With your fine German Legion,
Sanctioned by old Aberdeen,
Finality John and Vic the Queen.
Gladstone and Palmerstone so keen,
And General Albert will be seen.
To lead his German Soldiers nice,
With organs, monkeys and white mice,
And march to Russia in a trice
With his ugly German Legion.
               CHORUS.
Zingalara ugly mugs,
Organs, mice and dirty rugs
Fifteen thousand German bugs,
To form the German Legion.

Oh General Al. what do you mean,
To aggrevate your loving Queen,
And be advised by Aberdeen
To raise the German Legion.
They are coming to Guard the Palace Walls
So ladies all look out for squalls
They've bugs as big as the doom of St Paul's
To fire away with their big cannon balls
Cabbage sour crout and spoons
Keep the Germans out of your rooms,
Ladies will you by a broom
And join the German Legion

They will Guard the Tower of London town
And all the Tower ditch around,
Sweet Sally Smith and Jenny Brown
Will love the German Legions.
What glorious tunes they'll play rum tum,
Pop the weasel, follow the drum,
Buy a broom and fire a Gun'
To see the German Soldiers run
Fifteen thousand, what a lot,
Bad luck to the German porage pot
They will stand as stiff as a butcher's block
Prince Albert's German Legion.

Away from England they will roll,
To face the foe at Sebastopol,
And like the devil fight we are told.
The wonderful German Legions.
They are going to make the Russians jump,
Bite old Nicholas on the rump,
Sour crout and cabbage stumps,
Big polonies all in lumps.
With their ugly caps and hairy mugs
If they have neither balls or slugs,

They will their muskets load with bugs
The Glorious German Legions.
They will enlist both night and day
A foreign regiment made of elay,
And old Bull must the piper pay,
To keep the German Legion.
Organs, monkeys, mice and peas,
Crout on tingaloram lee,
Scratch'em bite'em diddlem dee
Stab'em, shoot'em bugs and fleas.
Will the British Soldiers like
Among the fleas and bugs to fight
Oh how they will the Russians bite,
The British German Legion.

Here's bugs so black and bugs so white
And yellow bugs to nip and bite
Here is fifteen thousand bugs so bright
To form the German Legion
Here is scarem bugs and humbugs free
There is wittenbugs big bugs and fleas,
And bugs to tickle the ladies knee
Tingalorum tiddlem dee
General Albert, Aberdeen,
Fight for Englands gracious Queen,
Such funny Soldiers ne'er was seen,
As the ragged German Legion

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