We know it was no idle chance
His ‘Entente cordiale’ with France.
True friendship and the peace we want
The outcome of this grand Entente.
Though not accented in our rhyme
We’ve been fighting all the time;
And it’s a fact which must be stated
Our chief opponent (so ’twas fated)
Wars with France
Our nearest neighbour o’er the Sea
Whose ‘No’ is ‘Non’; whose ‘Yes’ is ‘Oui’;
Like two schoolboys always sparring
Eight hundred years together warring;
From Hastings unto Waterloo
We’d battles with the brave ‘Mossoo.’
Now Honi soit qui still y pense;
Hurrah for England! Vive la France!
AND here we come to end our rhymes
We’ve reached the present stirring times,
When one and all lent helping hand
To keep secure the Motherland.