<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">A Bomber's Life</h1><h1 align="" class="head"><em>Tune</em>--" A Policeman's Life is not a Happy One."</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WHEN our enterprising bombers are not bombing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And our rifles are not throwing their grenades,</p><p class="line">We get tidings that the Gilded Staff are coming,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And we get the men to work with picks and spades.</p><p class="line">When our bombing posts at night-time we're alarming</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For surprises by the ever-ready Hun,</p><p class="line">And it's raining and the weather isn't charming,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Oh, a bomber's life is not a happy one.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>--When he's scheming out surprises for the Hun,</p><p class="line">Oh, a bomber's life is not a happy one.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">First our bombing post in trenches we are placing</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where the enterprising German might creep in,</p><p class="line">Then back homeward for a memo, we are chasing</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">On a hand grenade deficient of a pin.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">When our parties we are personally taking</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Through a salient<a class="footnote" href="#mackintosh110" name="mackintosh110-link" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">1</a> that's like a rabbit-run,</p><p class="line">And our knees with fear of oil-cans both are quaking,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Oh, a bomber's life is not a happy one.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">When we contemplate a little mild aggression,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Other officers all gather round and say</p><p class="line">In tones of unmistakable depression,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That they'd much prefer it if we'd go away.</p><p class="line">When at last, by dint of infinite intriguing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They allow a little bombing to be done,</p><p class="line">And we find that all our men are off fatiguing,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Oh, a bomber's life is not a happy one.</p></div><p class="line"><em>Chorus</em>as before.</p></body></html> · Great War