The Musical Charmer/Song of Wonders

by Anonymous

SONG OF WONDERS.

What a wonderful age ’tis my lads!
and what wonderful people live in it!
We’ve wonderful mammies and dads!
fresh wonders arise every minute!
We’ve wonderful ships in our Navy!
and wonderful Soldiers and Sailors!
We’ve wonderful beef full of gravy,
and wonderful cabbage for tailors!
Tol, lol.

We’ve wonderful Doctors call’d quacks,
and wonderful puffs in the Papers,
Will tell you most wonderful facts,
and cut you most wonderful capers!
With one little wonderful Pill,
they ev’ry disorder keep under!
And if they can’t cure, they can kill,
and, pray where's the difference, I wonder?
Tol, lol.

Take a peep at our wonderful Ladies,
they look all so wonderful pretty;
Each wig now so wonderful made is,
’twill suit grey, auburn, or jetty.
We’ve wonderful fine puppet-shows,
with wonderful sights to beholders!
We've wonderful boots for the beaux,
and coats made with wonderful shoulders!
Tol, lol.

We had wonderful foes on the seas!
who kick’d up a wonderful riot;
But we beat them with wonderful ease,
and, bang them, they wont remain quiet.
In Egypt (what wonderful works')
the French, with their great undertaker,
Went to take the whole land from the Turks,
But they could not take one single Acre.
Tol lol.

Now Boney, so wonderful clever,
will invade us as sure as gun;
So let him, he'll find that he never
experienc’d such wonderful fun:
His scare-crows, he threatens are ready,
at Boulogne at Calais and Brest
While our Soldiers and Sailors so steady,
Cry, Lads how we’ll feather his nest!
Tol, lol.

But the wonderful wonder of all,
and wonderful true they have found it,
Is that Britain, so wonderful small,
should awe the great nations around it!
Huzza! for each Soldier and far,
at fighting so wonderful clever;
When we’ve finish’d this wonderful war,
we may shout Wonderful Britons for ever!
Tol, lol, &c.