May they have such fellows as brave Benbow,
The Man who Mended the Boiler!
’Twas with the Nile fleet he set out,
With Lord Charles Beresford, gay and stout,
Midst the cataract’s roar, and the Arabs’ shout,
The Man who Mended the Boiler.
Khartoum and Gordon ahead did lie,
When a plate in the boiler did start and fly,
With a puff and a crack,
And the pace did slack,