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5
IT'S IN US, THAT'S ALL.
If they ask why we've thrashed all
We've fought on the main,
Why we who have smashed all
Shall smash all again;
Don't puzzle your mind, Bill,
The why to recall;
It's not long to find, Bill;
It's in us, that's all.
We've fought on the main,
Why we who have smashed all
Shall smash all again;
Don't puzzle your mind, Bill,
The why to recall;
It's not long to find, Bill;
It's in us, that's all.
Set the Mounseers' tongues going;
However they fuss,
Did they put to sea knowing
That they could thrash us?
Did they think, when we'd caught them,
They'd win? not at all;
We'd beat ere we fought them;
It's in us, that's all.
However they fuss,
Did they put to sea knowing
That they could thrash us?
Did they think, when we'd caught them,
They'd win? not at all;
We'd beat ere we fought them;
It's in us, that's all.
6
Ask the Dons if they ever
Have fought us to win;
If they don't say, “Never,”
They lie and that's sin;
Three centuries they've tried us
With hope? not at all;
They've struck when beside us;
It's in us, that's all.
Have fought us to win;
If they don't say, “Never,”
They lie and that's sin;
Three centuries they've tried us
With hope? not at all;
They've struck when beside us;
It's in us, that's all.
The nearest to treat us
In just our own way
Was Mynheer. Did he beat us?
Well, just perhaps one day.
But, put on our mettle,
Did we flinch at all?
Mynheer, we did settle;
It's in us, that's all.
In just our own way
Was Mynheer. Did he beat us?
Well, just perhaps one day.
But, put on our mettle,
Did we flinch at all?
Mynheer, we did settle;
It's in us, that's all.
And as for what's coming
With any that crow,
If hornets are humming,
Who'll smoke them, we know;
If we're driven to it,
The past just recall,
And you'll see how we'll do it;
It's in us, that's all.
With any that crow,
If hornets are humming,
Who'll smoke them, we know;
If we're driven to it,
The past just recall,
And you'll see how we'll do it;
It's in us, that's all.
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