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When you're pickin' your men for a fight, / When choosin' the corps that'll serve, / It's only quite proper an' right / To fix upon muscle an' nerve, / An' so, to your heavy Dragoons -- / Your Granny-dear Guards an' their band -- / To your Sappers with bridgin' pontoons, / You can buckle the Lower Deck Hand!
(_The Lower Deck Hand_ / _Doesn't want any band; _ / _He's grit, an he's sand_ / _Is the Lower Deck Hand._)