“It’s not a bad song. Only silly!”
“Well, try something older:
“‘We be
Soldiers three,
Lately come from the Low-Countree,
Pardonnez moi, je vous en prie;
We be
Soldiers three.’
That’s nearer three hundred years old. That’s what fellows used to sing coming back from Ypres in those days!”
“You talk as if we’d always been in and out of that mangey hole.”