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The Sixty-ninth is on its way -- France heard it long ago, / And the Germans know we're coming, to give them blow for blow. / We've taken on the contract, and when the job is through / We'll let them hear a Yankee cheer and an Irish ballad too.
The Harp that once through Tara's Halls shall fill the air with song, / And the Shamrock be cheered as the port is neared by our triumphant throng. / With the Potsdam Palace on a truck and the Kaiser in a sack, / New York will be seen one Irish green when the Sixty-ninth comes back.