Our Regimental Mess.

The baccy blew; the cocktails flew,

The whisky followed free.

I was the first whose buttons burst

From too much S and B.

Down dropt the cap’n; the colonel dropt down,

’Twas as droll as droll could be;

And they did fall only to bawl

An oath with a big big D.

All in a hot and smoky room