Four and Twenty Bombers

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Four and Twenty Bombers

Tune--" The Ball at Kirriemuir "

OH, four and twenty bombers,
Gaed oot at La Boisselle,
An' only ane cam' back again,
Remarkin' it was hell.

Chorus--Singing " Wha'll dae't the next time?
Wha'll dae't the noo?
The lads that did it last time
Cannae dae it noo."

We bombed 'em for fower hours,
Until we had tae stop,
An' then there was a row o' duds
Upon the crater top.
Chorus--Singing, etc.
Sae here's tae the Kaiser,
We'll soon hae's blood,
If we cannae throw a live
We can aye buzz a dud.

Chorus--Singing, etc.

This choice lyric, from which the best verse is omitted, for obvious reasons, is set to an ancient and disreputable Scotch ballad.

Title: Four and Twenty Bombers
Identifier: greatwar_mackintosh031

Item sets: War, The Liberator and Other Pieces

Media: <html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Four and Twenty Bombers</h1><h1 align="" class="head"><em>Tune</em>--" The Ball at Kirriemuir "</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">OH, four and twenty bombers,</p><p class="line">Gaed oot at La Boisselle,</p><p class="line">An' only ane cam' back again,</p><p class="line">Remarkin' it was hell.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>--Singing " Wha'll dae't the next time?</p><p class="line">Wha'll dae't the noo?</p><p class="line">The lads that did it last time</p><p class="line">Cannae dae it noo."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">We bombed 'em for fower hours,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Until we had tae stop,</p><p class="line">An' then there was a row o' duds</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Upon the crater top.</p><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>--Singing, etc.</p><p class="line">Sae here's tae the Kaiser,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We'll soon hae's blood,</p><p class="line">If we cannae throw a live</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We can aye buzz a dud.</p></div><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>--Singing, etc.</p><p>This choice lyric, from which the best verse is omitted, for obvious reasons, is set to an ancient and disreputable Scotch ballad. </p></body></html>