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"The whole of the fourteenth platoon will parade
Wi' pick and spade!"

Pick and spade,
Pick and spade,
Every man jack of us all of a trade;
"Fall in the blokes o' the Navvy's Brigade,
Wi' pick and spade!"

Pick and spade,
Pick and spade,
Thingumabob 90° in the shade;
On thro' the mud and the muck we wade—
A dead man's skull—and I've broken the blade
O' my bluidy old spade!

Pick and spade,
Pick and spade;
This is the way that the War Game's played—
Bill's got hit i' the leg and is off to First Aid—