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The Wail of the "OTC"

Verses by   Bdr.Jackson Allan Rand   July/August 1917

“And Percival the Corporal too
Is prowling round & looking blue
He says ‘Show me the blighter who
Is going to close the Front’.”
Jimmy sits and sighs all day,
His smile has faded right away,
If you ask why? he’ll mournfully say,
“They are going to close the Front.”
“Our gay Lothario-like Jenn,
Has lost his cool complacent grin,
In his anguish he is murmurin’,
They are going to close the Front”
Jimmy Pollock and Harry Hind,
Their tears are mingled, their grief combined
Bemoaning the loss of their “Fareham” finds
Because they’ve closed the Front
Adam in his canny way
Thinks lots, but has not much to say,
But to be alone for an hour, he’ll pray,
With the man who closed the Front.
Young Wilkie here was getting fat,
How he moans upon the mat,
And declares his hair won’t lie down flat
The day they close the Front
Young Johnston our highland laddie bright
Declares that he will come in tight,
And hopes fo a “Braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht,
The night they close the Front.
Bdr.Jackson Allan Rand
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