BUNDALAH (Service Song.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2692, 18 October 1905, Page 77

BUNDALAH (Service Song.)

To No. 2 North Canterbury Infantry Battalion. I'll sing yei a song, But it won't be long, For we'll soon be on the go.'Though my voice ia coarse, An' a trifle hoarse. It's the best that I can show. This niarchin' an' dirt Would mortally 'urt The best bloomin' voice ever 'card; But I'll do my b-est, You iill in. the rest: We'll be all right, teke my word. It's marching to Bundalah To fight the bloomin' blacks. Marchin' to Bundalah, Along unbeaten tracks: "With 'alf a bcot Upon yen foot, j An' empty haversacks ; Oh! marchin' to "Bundalah, To fight hte bloc-min' blacks. We went at a run In the sweltering sun. With the snifi of a fight afar ; We charged with a will, An' we took the 'ill, An' sailed inter Bundalah. There was now't to shoot An' much less to loot In the town of those sons o' tar; So we set it alight, An' we left that night A charr'd rum call'd Bundalah. An' didn't we roast Way down to the coast; Good lord! but the way was far. J I shouted with glee When I saw the sea, An' foigot about Bundalah. Oh, maichin' to Bundalah, To fight the bloomin' blacks, Maixhin' to Bundalah, Along unbeaten tracks: With 'alf a boot Upon yei foot, "An' empty haversacks; Oh! marchin' tc Bundalah, To fight the blocmni' blacks. Now, I've finished the song, An' it wasn't so long, An' ere comes the sergeant-major. So it's "Fall in" smart, Before he can start Accursm' the powers that made yer. It's not a "bad air, An' the words they're fair, So it fills in the gap at the halt. As we march on again If the swinging refrain Don't fit with the slip taint my fault. — Tiaki Pokata. Christchurch, October, 1905.

—An 11-year-old boy named Harrison has never missed an attendance at Waverhridge School, near Wigton (Cumberland), for seven years. Living a mile from the school, the sturdy lad has daily tramped there and back, in all sorts of weather, ever since he was four years old, and has Ly this means traversed over 3000 miles. A brother and sister of his have not missed once, or once been late, for t//o yt&ra.