<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Sniper Sandy<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Sergeant Alexander Macdonald, Killed in Action at Beaumont-Hamel, <em>November</em> 18<em>th</em>, 1916)</h1><h1 align="" class="head"><em>Tune</em>--" Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers"</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">SANDY MAC the sniper is a-sniping from his loop-hole,</p><p class="line">With a telescopic rifle he is looking for a Hun.</p><p class="line">If he sees a sniper lurking, or a working-party working,</p><p class="line">At once he opens fire on them, and bags them every one.</p><p class="line">And when you come into our trench, by night-time or by day,</p><p class="line">We take you to his loop-hole, and we point to him and say--</p></div><p><em>Chorus--</em>-- </p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"Sniper Sandy's slaying Saxon soldiers,</p><p class="line">And Saxon soldiers seldom show but Sandy slays a few</p><p class="line">And every day the Bosches put up little wooden crosses</p><p class="line">In the cemetery for Saxon soldiers Sniper Sandy slew.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Now in the German trenches there's a sniper they call Herman</p><p class="line">A stout and stolid Saxon with a healthy growth of beard,</p><p class="line">And Hermann with his rifle is the pride of every German,</p><p class="line">Until our Sandy gets on him, and Hermann gets afeared,</p><p class="line">For when he hears the bullets come he slides down to the ground,</p><p class="line">And tremblingly he gasps out to his comrades all around--</p></div><p><em>Chorus</em>-- </p><p xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"></p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">" Sniper Sandy's slaying Saxon soldiers,</p><p class="line">And Saxon soldiers seldom show but Sandy slays a few,</p><p class="line">And every day the Bosches put up little wooden crosses</p><p class="line">In the cemetery for Saxon soldiers Sniper Sandy slew."</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The Seaforths got so proud of Sandy's prowess with his rifle,</p><p class="line">They drew up a report on him and sent it to the Corps,</p><p class="line">And ninety-seven was his bag--it doesn't seem a trifle--</p><p class="line">But Sandy isn't certain that it wasn't rather more,</p><p class="line">And when Sir John French heard of it, he broke into a laugh,</p><p class="line">And rubbed his hands and chuckled to the Chief of General Staff--</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>--" Sniper Sandy," etc.</p></div></body></html> · Great War