Source: Project Gutenberg #136
Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136
Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 15664-16287; checksum 916beb4684431747272167f8760432bccee23bfd8a751b0342bfe91fd8be2ec3.


# Marching Song

Marching Song

  Bring the comb and play upon it!
       Marching, here we come!
  Willie cocks his highland bonnet,
       Johnnie beats the drum.

  Mary Jane commands the party,
       Peter leads the rear;
  Feet in time, alert and hearty,
       Each a Grenadier!

  All in the most martial manner
       Marching double-quick;
  While the napkin, like a banner,
       Waves upon the stick!

  Here's enough of fame and pillage,
       Great commander Jane!
  Now that we've been round the village,
       Let's go home again.


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