D COMPANY'S MARCHING SONG.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 78, 23 April 1915, Page 2

D COMPANY'S MARCHING SONG.

The following lines, written byW. S. Brown, tho tune being "Marching thro' Georgia," were inspired by a speech made to the Fifth Reinforcements at Trentham by Captain Domigan, of Gore, at the camp on February 23: We get fed on squad drill, boys, as to the right we turn. Sometimes, perhaps, we lose all hope, and think we'll never learn.

But there is no other way we possibjy can earn The right to be marching through 'Germany. Chorus:

Hurrah! Hurrah! We are D Company. Hurrah! Hurrah! Of the "Fighting Fifth" are we. We'll each make six fat German Huns before us bend the knoe

As we go marching thro' Germany. We may not have traditions, boys, of which we can be proud, But with the power to make them, iboys, we're every man endowed. We'll make the world reverberate with

songs and praises loud Of 'D Fifth marching thro' Germany. Cheer our fighting captain, whom all have learned to love. "First obey, then grouse," says lie, then go to one above. Heaven and Headquarters he has promised us he'll move As wo go marching thro' Germany. Should you be called upon, my boys, the great full price to pay, 'Die like a true New Zealander, that all

the world may say— You were Zeal audi as' son, my hoy, she sent you out to-day To march with the Fifth through 'Gormanv.