My name is what you may call me
and my father's was as well
Ah, the little game he taught me,
now the story I will tell
We'd lots of little soldiers and
as sure as the day would come
I sent them into battle with
I put them up on the table and I
Then I battered them with the cannonballs
and watched them falling down
I've lots of little crosses that
Then I punched up all the wounded
ones and sent them home to bed
I went round and asked the
neighbours for a nickel or a dime
So I could buy some soldiers just
They were always very kindly
in supplying me with guns
And some of them even let me play
at soldiers with their sons
And I put them up on the table and
I marched them all around
Then I battered them with the cannonballs
and watched them pound out
I'd lots of little crosses that
Then I punched up all the wounded ones
and sent them home to bed
Whenever I went to the shop
The man there always smiled and patted
me head and whispered thanks
If it wasn't for your soldier gib,
You keep me business busy,
And I put them up on the table and
I marched them all around
Then I battered them with the cannonballs
and watched them falling down
I had lots of little crosses
that I laid upon the dead
Then I patched up all the wounded
ones and sent them home to bed
One day I bought some aeroplanes
but here was what I found
When I sent them in with bombs to
help my army up the ground
They bombed up every soldier
there and proved a sorrowful flop
I had to buy another hundred
Cause I put them up on the table and
I marched them all around
Then I battered them with the cannonballs
and watched them fall them down
I had lots of little crosses that
Then I punched up all the wounded
ones and sent them home to bed
I would very much like if I could
teach this little game of guns
To my seven beautiful daughters
and my fourteen lovely son s
he gave me down a bomb from out the shed
It blew up every soldier,
all my neighbours and meself
Cos I put them up on the table and
I marched them all around
Then I battled them with the cannonballs
and watched them fall and down
I'd lots of little crosses that
Then I punched up all the wounded
ones and sent them all to bed
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