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Deep in the Heart of Cactus (He's got many Thorny Points) [1943]

Enter Muckrake. Salutes General

page 6

Enter Muckrake. Salutes General.

Muck:

Sir, I have a most important message.

Brings Cut Signal book and Starts Morse.

Fried:

Come to your senses man. What the devil does that mean?

Muck:

Briefly, sir, it means this. (Reads; Country fed up. Stop. Holland in Dutch. Stop, Director of national Service appeals s for Private/Lazer, F., Cash, A., Coal, O.K., Bombardier Simple, B. B. Stop,

Fried:

D. S. O. of course.

Muck:

(Continues Reading) Urge immediate release for work on Home Front.

Lazer:

There's no place like home, boys.

Fried:

In view of the outstanding valour you have shown today, I take great pleasure in releasing you from His Majesty's Armed Forces in the Middle East, so help me God! Signed. Freyberg.

Stands at Attention.

All Join in Circle and Sing to Tune of "Carry me Back to Old Virginny."

Chorus
Carry us back to ola Noo Zilond
There's where the cocky and the butterfat are prized.
There's where the miners are kings in the winter
N. Zed's the land that we nearly socialized
There's where we laboured so hard for the masses
Day after day fona Utopian plans wea boost
No place on earth has been taxed more severely
Than Ola Noo Zillond where the Unions rate the roost

Praiser.
Carry us back to Ola Noo Zillond
There lot us Iwe till we build a golden age
oft in the halls of the House shall we linger
Till every worker is on the Basic wager
Holland and savage are long gone before us
We have not followed where they would have led
Still will we strive for the good of the people
Although the bulk of our principles are dead

Chorus.
Carry us back to Ola Noo Zillond
There's where the State owns everything you grow
There's where a wharfies one up on a banker
There's where the best of our labour leaders Go