Oh, Kitchener is worth a lot, and so is Johnny French;

We talk a heap about ’em both when sitting in our trench.

But if you want to know the chap whose name should be wrote big,

I tell yer straight, the best of all is good old Gen’ral Cig.


Here’s to the beggar that hasn’t a smoke,

Nor a “fag-paper” even to make one;

And here’s to the toff, may he never go broke,

Who asks Tommy Atkins to take one.