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'Where 'ave you been this week or more, / 'Aven't seen you about the war? / Thought perhaps you was at the rear / Guarding the waggons.' 'What, us? No fear! / Where have we been? Why, bless my heart, / Where have we been since the bloomin' start? / Right in the front of the army, / Battling day and night! / Right in the front of the army, / Teaching 'em how to fight!' / Every separate man you see, / Sapper, gunner, and C.I.V., / Every one of 'em seems to be / Right in the front of the army!
Most of the troops to the camp had gone, / When we met with a cow-gun toiling on; / And we said to the boys, as they walked her past, / 'Well, thank goodness, you're here at last!' / 'Here at last! Why, what d'yer mean? / Ain't we just where we've always been? / Right in the front of the army, / Battling day and night! / Right in the front of the army, / Teaching 'em how to fight!' / Correspondents and vets. in force, / Mounted foot and dismounted horse, / All of them were, as a matter of course, / Right in the front of the army.