Sourkrout and Sausages.

I marry my frow—some childer I gets

As fat as little pigs,

Dey eat me out of my house un home

Un boterr me mit some rigs.

Chorus.—Sourkrout un Sausages—

Schnapps un lager bier,

I wish I was home mit my frow,

As any place but here.

My frow do noting but scold and scratch,

Un weare my breeches, too;

When I open my mouth she takes a stick

Un beats me black and blue.

Sourkrout un Sausages, etc.

I live mit her as long as I can,

Den I runs away—

To list for a soldier un Basastopole,

To fight for a shilling a day.

Sourkrout un Sausages, etc.

De army is bad as tounge of my frow,

It is as worse by far—

De Russias stick me if I goes on front

Un I’m killed if I go to de rear.

Sourkrout and Sausages, etc.

All you men has got frows yus’e dake mine advice,

Un put up mit dere ire,

To list for a soldier is jumping out

Of de frying pan into the fire.

Sourkrout un Sausages, etc.