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As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, / I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style. / 'E was scrapin' the paint from off of 'er plates, / an' I sez to 'im, "Oo are you? " / Sez 'e, "I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too! " / Now 'is work begins by Gawd knows when, and 'is work is never through; / 'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew. / 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite -- soldier an' sailor too!
An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds of things, / Like landin' 'isself with a Gatlin' gun to talk to them 'eathen kings; / 'E sleeps in an 'ammick instead of a cot, / an' 'e drills with the deck on a slew, / An' 'e sweats like a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too! / For there isn't a job on the top o' the earth the beggar don't know, nor do -- / You can leave 'im at night on a bald man's 'ead, to paddle 'is own canoe -- / 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse -- soldier an' sailor too.