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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Friday, 20th June, 1919

Farewell

page 9

Farewell.

"Breakfast here, supper in Hades."—Leonides Before Chermoylae

(Verse by Non-combatants.)

There's a lot of people here
"Who are fond of beef and beer,
Who may, so they say
Every day, when they're gay,
Over-eat themselves, we fear!
Now they're going to have their fill
Of a life we've all heard tell,
Where it's hot, they say,
Though supremely gay—
It's the life that's lead in Hell!

Chorus:
Farewell! farewell!
You go down below
To Hell;
Breakfast here, and then—what oh!
You'll be supping in Hell below.
In Hades there are ladies,
And a lot of devil pals of yours,
Who are waiting there,
Just to see you dare
Take a peep,
Then a leap
To Hades!

(Verse by Departing Warriors,)

Beef and bone don't there command
The place they do in Sparta Land.
All you want, so they say,
Is to dance and be gay,
At the stoking lend a hand!
If the Chows chop off your head,
Then you're safe for Hell—nuff said!
For there's fighting there,
And we'll get our share,
So to you, Sparta Land, good-bye!

Chorus:
Good-bye-ee! Good-bye-ee!
We go, don't you know,
To die-ee;
Though it's hard to leave you here,
We're just going to fight Korea!
Korea, Korea.
That's the place we'e going to try and queer.
If they turn us down
We will paint the town,
The colour red,
Till we're dead,
Or pretty near.