Wars > Crimean War (1853-1856)

      'Tis time we hunt the Bear,

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Come all you grallant huntsmen who love to hunt the game
And listen for a moment while I sine a jolly theme,
For 'tis the hun ing season the sport it has begun,
Each man must go a hunting with his sabre spear and gun

                                 Chorus.

So to hunting we'll repair my boys to hunting we'll repair
Along with France we will advance to hunt the Russian bear

Some hunters hunt for elephants and others hunt for boars
Whilst others hunt the wolf & fox and others hunt the doe
Some will hunt the stag my boys and others hunt the hare
But in all the hunts that danger lies is hunting russian bears

England's going a hunting to sweep the land and wave
Her Jolly tars and Sons of Mars they always acted brave
I hope the brave Hungarians and Poles will take a place,
And claim their independanee while the bear is on the cnase

Old Nicholas is for hunting all the Turks away from home
And take posession of their lands and make them all his own
Some time he has been hunting the Hungarians& the Poles
So now we'll hunt the savage bear out of his hiding holes

For Raglan is a huntsman and a man of noted fame
He's going with Omer Pasha for to kill and hunt the geme
With 100,000 beagles from old England and France
So er'e its long depend upon they'll make the bear to dance

And there's England's bluff old Charley who commands
the british fleet
With 20,000 huntsmen they are wicked chaps to meet
They are the boys that fear no noise upon the raging seas
So they'll soon cut the russians down like lots of bugs
and fleas

And who can equal our brave boys the soldier of the line
Who care not for the russian power or all he can combine
Who've fought a thousand battles and victory have main-
taind
Who leave old proud brittania the mistress of the main

Success to Admiral Dundas tho' he was called a fool
He's gone to hunt the russian bear out of Sabastapoo
He is a vallient hunter and deserving of much praise
He made the ru sians fly and Odessa in a blaz

                        Finale.

All our sailors they vow and declarer
They will fight with Charley Nlapier
With turkey and france they will boldly advanee
For to chain and muzzle the bear

               Paul Printer 7 Dials