WE was in the ” Blue Dragon,’ Sid ‘Awkins and me,
When all of a sudden, “Here, Ernie,” says he,
“There are limits to what flesh and blood can endure;
We must really protest against Prussian Kultur.
” There’s an alien butcher down Wapplng High Street,
The swine’s gone amd asked me to pay for my meat ;
His father’s a Frenchman, his mother’s a Moor,
But he’d do with a lesson in Prussian Kultur.”
So we off like a streak, and we pulled him from bed,
And tore off his nightshirt and pummelled his head,
And rolled him along in the mud to secure
He should quite grasp the meaning of Prussian Kultur.
the way that we bashed ‘im and hooted and hissed
Was a sight Lady Bathurst ought not to have missed;
For her organ Die Post gives a steady and sure
Support to the tenets of Prussian Kultur.
Then we emptied the shop in a white moral heats
I got half a bullock, my wife some pigs’ feet,
And some very nice tripe which she thought ought to cure
The Kaiser’s devotion to Prussian Kultur.
Yes, even the coppers themselves took a part
With a cutlet apiece from Sid ‘Awkins’s cart,
As a positive proof that they shared in our feeling.
And did not confuse moral protest with stealing.
Reassured by these kindly, encouraging cops,
We protested at each of the neighbouring shops,
Till at last at the end of our punitive week
They took us, pro forma, in front of the beak.
But he only remarked that no civilized nation
Could hope to withstand such extreme provocation,
“You’re discharged, for I know that your motives were pure
You desired to protest against Prussian Kultur !”
GRAND CHORUS
So fill up the cup and fill up the can!
A tradesman’s a Hun and a copper’s a man ;
But O that each restaurateur were a brewer,
For a healthy great thirst has our British Kultur,
(John Collings Squire)
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