What shall we follow in, follow in?
What shall we follow in?
We’ll follow in blue.

Blue is for sailors, for sailors,
Blue is for sailors,
And that won’t do.
[or, You can’t follow her so.]

[Then follow—

Red is for soldiers,
White is for weddings,
Yellow is for babies.]

Black is not deep enough, deep enough,
That won’t do.

What shall we follow in, follow in?

We’ll follow her in crape, crape [pronounced cray-ape].

You may follow her in crape, crape,
You may follow her in crape,
That will do.

—Deptford (Miss E. Chase).