There was another parody of the same song in Punch, February 27, 1858, complaining of the shameful manner in which our soldiers were then clothed, lodged, and fed. As most of the evils therein alluded to have been remedied, the parody is now obsolete. A parody entitled “Aitcheson’s Carabineers,” appears on page 112 of the 1869 edition of Logan’s “Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads and Songs.”
Through Fire and Water;
or, The London Volunteers.
Some talk of Alexander,
And some of Hercules,—
The Chief whose martial dander,
Asked worlds to stand at ease—
The Sayers of the prize ring,
In high Olympian spheres,—
But both, I’ll be bound, now-a-days would be found