《Old Sam’s Christmas Pudding》歌词

[00:00:00] Old Sam's Christmas Pudding - Stanley Holloway

[00:00:11] It was christmas day in the trenches

[00:00:14] In spain in penninsular war

[00:00:17] And sam small were cleaning his musket

[00:00:20] A thing as he'd nere done before

[00:00:23] They'd had em inspected that morning

[00:00:26] And sam had got into disgrace

[00:00:29] For when sergeant had looked down the barrel

[00:00:33] A sparrow flew out in his face

[00:00:36] The sergeant reported the matter

[00:00:39] To lieutenant bird then and there

[00:00:42] Said lieutenant how justly disgusting

[00:00:46] The duke must be told of this eye

[00:00:49] The duke were upset when he heard

[00:00:53] He said i'm astonished i am

[00:00:56] I must make a most drastic example

[00:01:00] There'll be no christmas pudding for sam

[00:01:04] When sam were informed of his sentence

[00:01:07] Surprise rooted him to the spot

[00:01:11] Twice much worse than he had expected

[00:01:14] He thought as he'd only be shot

[00:01:18] And so he sat cleaning his musket

[00:01:21] And polishing barrel and butt

[00:01:25] While the pudding his mother had sent him

[00:01:28] Lay there in the mud at his foot

[00:01:32] Now the centre that sam's lot were holding

[00:01:36] Ran around a place called badajoz

[00:01:40] Where the spaniards had put up a bastion

[00:01:44] And oh what a bastion it was

[00:01:47] They pounded away all the morning

[00:01:50] With canister grape shot and ball

[00:01:53] But the face of the bastion defied them

[00:01:57] They made no impression at all

[00:01:59] They started again after dinner

[00:02:02] Bombarding as hard as they could

[00:02:05] And the duke brought his own private cannon

[00:02:10] But that weren't day pence oh good

[00:02:13] The duke said sam put down they musket

[00:02:17] And help me lay this gun true

[00:02:20] Sam answered you'd best ask your favours

[00:02:24] From them as you give pudding to

[00:02:27] The duke looked at sam so reproachful

[00:02:32] And don't take it that way said he

[00:02:35] Us generals have got to be ruthless

[00:02:39] It hurts me more than it did there

[00:02:43] Sam sniffed at these words kind of sceptic

[00:02:48] Then looked down the duke's private gun

[00:02:51] And said we'd best put in two charges

[00:02:55] We'll never bust bastion with one

[00:02:59] He tipped cannon ball out of muzzle

[00:03:01] He took out the wadding and all

[00:03:04] He filled barrel chock full of powder

[00:03:07] Then picked up and replaced the ball

[00:03:10] He took a good aim at the bastion

[00:03:13] Then said right oh duke let her fly

[00:03:18] The cannon nigh jumped off her trunnions

[00:03:22] And up went the bastion sky high

[00:03:27] The duke he weren't alf elated

[00:03:31] He danced around trench full of glee

[00:03:34] And said sam for this gallant action

[00:03:39] You can hot up your pudding for tea

[00:03:42] Sam looked round to pick up his pudding

[00:03:46] But it wasn't there nowhere about

[00:03:49] In the place where he thought he had left it

[00:03:52] Lay the cannon ball he'd just tipped out

[00:03:57] Sam saw in a flash what ad happened

[00:04:01] By an unprecedented mishap

[00:04:04] The pudding his mother had sent him

[00:04:07] Had blown badajoz off the map

[00:04:11] That's why fuisilliers wear at today this moment

[00:04:15] A badge which they think's a grenade

[00:04:18] But they're wrong it's a brass reproduction

[00:04:23] Of the pudding sam's mother once made