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Stepping Stones to the Solomons: the unofficial history of the 29th Battalion with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific.

29th Battalion Songs

page 90

29th Battalion Songs

Red, White and Navy blue, and the Army and the Air Force, too,
We're fighting side by side, we're proud of you;
On land or sea or sky, as the bullets go whizzing by
You'll find the Twentyninth Battalion by your side.
Eyes right, buttons bright, bayonets to the rear,
We're the boys that make the noise, we're always full of GR-O-G;
We're the heroes of the night, we'd sooner drink than fight,
We're the heroes of Bob Semple's booziliers.

A little spot of mud fell out the sky one day,
It landed in the ocean ten thousand miles away;
When the army saw it, it looked so bloody bare.
That's just the place we're looking for—we'll send our B Force there.

So they sent up river gunboats, armoured cars and BH2,
And they sent the 29th from out the bloody blue;
And here we are to stay all day in a land that's so remote
That all we seem to say all day is, 'Where's that bloody boat?'