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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510897" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Absent-Minded Beggar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you've shouted ' Rule Britannia,' when you've sung ' God save the Queen,' <br>When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,<br>Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine<br>For a gentleman in khaki ordered South? <br>He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - <br>But we and Paul must take him as we find him - <br>He is out on active service, wiping something off a slate <br>And he's left a lot of little things behind him! <br>Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings <br>(Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay!) <br>Each of 'em doing his country's work<br>(and who's to look after their things?)<br>Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay - pay - pay ! <br>There are girls he married secret, asking no permission to, <br>For he knew he wouldn't get it if he did.<br>There is gas and coals and vittles, and the house-rent falling due, <br>And its more than rather likely there’s a kid. <br>There are girls he’s walked with casual. They’ll be sorry now he’s gone, <br>For an absent-minded beggar they will find him, <br>But it ain’t the time for sermons with the winter coming on <br>We must help the girl that Tommy’s left behind him! <br>Cook's son - Duke's son - son of a belted Earl <br>Son of a Lambeth publican - it's all the same to-day ! <br>Each of 'em doing his country's work <br>(and who's to look after the girl?)<br>Pass the hat for your credit's sake, J1 and pay - pay - pay ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are families by thousands, far too proud to beg or speak,<br>And they'll put their sticks and bedding up the spout,<br>And they'll live on half o' nothing, paid 'em punctual once a week,<br>'Cause the man that earns the wage is ordered out.<br>He's an absent-minded beggar, but he heard his country call,<br>And his reg'rnent didn't need to send to find him!<br>He chucked his job and joined it - so the job before us all <br>Is to help the home that Tommy's left behind him ! <br>Duke's job - cook's job - gardener, baronet, groom.<br>Mews or palace or paper-shop, there's someone gone away!<br>Each of 'em doing his country's work <br>(and who's to look after the room?)<br>Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay - pay - pay ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us manage so as, later, we can look him in the face, <br>And tell him - what he'd very much prefer <br>That, while he saved the Empire, his employer saved his place,<br>And his mates (that's you and me) looked out for her.<br>He's an absent-minded beggar and he may forget it all,<br>But we do not want his kiddies to remind him<br>That we sent 'em to the workhouse while their daddy hammered Paul, <br>So we'll help the homes that Tommy left behind him ! <br>Cook's home - Duke's home - home of a millionaire,<br>(Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay !)<br>Each of 'em doing his country's work<br>(and what have you got to spare?)<br>Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay - pay - pay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki ordered South? 
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