[MACHEATH]
John was all present and Jim was all there

[TIGER BROWN]
And Georgie was up for promotion

[MACHEATH]
Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were

[TIGER BROWN]
When confronting some heathen commotion

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar

[TIGER BROWN]
Moving from place to place

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
When they come face to face

[TIGER BROWN]
With a different breed of fellow
[MACHEATH]
Whose skins are black or yellow

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
They quick as winking chop them into beefsteak tartar!

[MACHEATH]
Johnny found his whisky too warm

[TIGER BROWN]
And Jimmy found the weather too balmy

[MACHEATH]
But Georgie took them both by the arm

[TIGER BROWN]
And said, "Don't ever disappoint the army!"

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar

[TIGER BROWN]
Moving from place to place
[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
When they come face to face

[TIGER BROWN]
With a different breed of fellow

[MACHEATH]
Whose skins are black or yellow

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
They quick as winking chop them into beefsteak tartar!

[MACHEATH]
John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead

[TIGER BROWN]
And Georgie was shot for looting

[MACHEATH]
But young men's blood goes on being red

[TIGER BROWN]
And the army still goes on ahead recruiting

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar
[TIGER BROWN]
Moving from place to place

[MACHEATH]
When they come face to face

[TIGER BROWN]
With a different breed of fellow

[MACHEATH]
Whose skins are black or yellow

[MACHEATH & TIGER BROWN]
They quick as winking chop them into beefsteak tartar!