What Have the Cavalry Done

What have the cavalry done? / Cantered and trotted about, / Routin' the enemy out, / Causin' the beggars to run! / And we tramped along in the blazin' heat, / Over the veldt on our weary feet. / Tramp, tramp, tramp / Under the blazin' sun, / With never the sight of a bloomin' Boer, / 'Cause they'd hunted 'em long before -- / That's what the cavalry done!

What have the gunners done / Battlin' every day, / Battlin' any way. / Boers outranged 'em, but what cared they? / 'Shoot and be damned,' said the R.H.A.! / See! when the fight grows hot, / Under the rifles or not, / Always the order runs, / 'Fetch up the bloomin' guns!'