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"Dreadnaughtia."

Air: "Months and months and months."

One sunny day in April last our warship came to port,
First cruiser big to visit this salubrious resort,
Excitement flowed in every vein, and Georgy Nathan^* cried,
E'en blatant soldier Robert Hogg^† must view our ship with pride.

Chorus:
We'll never see the likes of her for months and months and months,
We'll never see the likes of her for months and months and months,
Sir Joseph was immortalized, his "gift" had made a show,
Dropped anchor in our harbour deep, where stormy winds do blow.

Joe Carter of the Horse Marines upon the Cobar's rail,
With Daniel Moriarty came our battleship to hail,
And when he touched the vessel's deck this mighty atom roared
"Hannounce to Captain 'Alsey that the howners are aboard."

Chorus:
We don't suppose we'll see her again for months and months and months,
We don't suppose we'll see her again for months and months and months,
That Pirate Henry Bodley^‡ bold is staggered just for once,
And Dowdall hasn't seen the like for months and months and months.

The Capting and his merry men went out to Hutt to play
A game with Compton and the other "Nuts" of Welleslay,
And Peterkin, of pumpkin fame, who came to see the fray,
Soon chummed up with the Captain bold in quite a taking way.

Chorus:
They'd never see fruit like his again for months and months and months,
They'd never see fruit like his again for months and months and months,
They bore his produce swift away and made of it a pie,
And Huttites marvel at the fact that someone didn't die.

Said Peterkin to Halsey bold, "If Germans strayed this way,
And you were playing bowls with me, like Drake of former day,
Would you decide to play the game and see the issue through,
Or would you make a bolt for it and put them in a stew ?"

Chorus:
Said Halsey brave: "I'd stay right here and finish out the game,
When race off in my motor car to fan the fighting flame."
Said Peterkin : "Well, that's all right, of foes you do not reck,
But at the motor hurdles you'd break your naval neck."

—"Cinnamon."