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Overheard on cross-time radio:

In 1815 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson on an ocean-going ship.
We took a lot of bacon and we took some powder too
And we went to fight Napoleon at the town of Waterloo.

Refrain:
We fired our guns and the Frenchies kept a’comin’
Wasn’t nigh as many as an hour ago or three.
Fired once more and they began to runnin;
Off the field of Waterloo and back to gay Paree.

The redcoats all got slaughtered when they stood there in a line
But they sent us out as skirmishers and that was mighty fine.
We hid out at La Haye Sainte and we watched the Frogs advance
And when we opened up, the bastards didn’t have a chance.

Refrain

They sent the cavalry across a’chargin’ for the guns
And a lot of British mothers lost their darlin’ English sons.
But when the Frenchies chased them back, that’s where we lay in wait
And we served spit-roasted Cuirassier to Hickory on a plate.

Refrain

Things got a little desp’rate as the evening hours fell
And the Old Guard came a’ridin’ for to give the British hell.
We stood with the Fifty-Second and we aimed our rifles high
The Old Guard might not surrender but they sure knew how to die.

Refrain

Yeah, they ran up the ridge and they ran back to mama
They ran between stones where an owl couldn’t see.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
Off the field of Waterloo and back to gay Paree.

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