PATRIOTIC VERSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 19 May 1915, Page 7

PATRIOTIC VERSE.

"IT'S A LONG, LONG WAY FROM HERE TO TURKEY."

It's a. long, long way from here to . Turkey, ' It's a long way to go; Where Jack, and Tim, and Bill, and dear old Bsrtie, . v .'.-■■ Are blazing at the foe! I'm off to join them, will you do the Game?

It's s, long, long way from here to Turkey, But let's joiu the game.

Ij s a long, long way from here to Turkey, Where other men like you Are writing down their name in deeds of glory, • * So won't you come there, too? Just put on your khaki, and shoulder your gun, And we won't come back to old New Zealand, Till victory is won!

It's a long, long way from here to Turkey, It's a long way to go, But I'm off to fire a shot with Bill and Bertie, And you're coming too, I know! - Good-bye, little Sweetheart, farewell, Mother dear — It's a long, long way from here to Turkey, But you've nothing to fear.

It's a long, long way from here to Turkey, But we'll soon be there, And we'll p:ive your love to all the British Tommies, And play the game right square! So write to us often, and pray for us, too — l£'s a long, long way from here to Turkey, But we'll come back to you! —J.S. Hawera, May 18.