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Verse One (To be sung with feeling by
the assembled company)
Here we are
spending a year on Gan,
Passing three
hundred and sixty five days, getting a wonderful sun
Here we are, spending a year in the sun
Getting a glimpse of a woman when we can
We've got to be contented if we want to keep our minds
We've got to buy from the N.A.A.F.I. 'cos there are no other kinds
We've got to do our flipping jobs, or else the C.O. binds:
There's another u/s Britannia on the Pan !
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Verse Two (To be sung by the member of
the company nearest repat)
Look at
me, waiting to leave at last,
Hoping to
catch a Comet 'cos the Brits aren't very fast.
Look at me, longing to join my wife,
Hoping to have the holiday of my life
I've got to wait for my relief, but still he hasn't come:
I've got to keep on working 'cos he will not leave his Mum:
He thinks he's bloody clever, but I think he's just a bum:
But I'm thankful that my celibate year is past.
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Verse Three (To be sung by the most
newly arrive member of the company)
I'm new to this, I've only been here a week,
And from my first impression it's a place that's rather bleak
I'm new to this sweating beneath the sun,
In short I'd say I'm really up the creek.
I stopped a night in Aden and I've got Kormakaar gut,
I bathed without my flip-flops, and I've got coral cut,
I left a girl in Blighty who was very lovely but -
I've got to pay her seven and six a week !
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Verse Four (All join in. It is an
advantage, but not essential, to know the tune)
Here we are
spending a year on Gan,
Passing three
hundred and sixty five days, getting a wonderful sun
Here we are, spending a year in the sun
Getting a glimpse of a woman when we can
We're very short of money, 'cos we get no L.O.A.
We spend our evenings in the bar, a squandering our pay:
We wake up in the morning when we here the tannoy say -
Get up to work as quickly as you can:
There's another u/s Britannia on the pan:
So we'd better fix the b-st-d if we can !
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That concludes the officail version,
but there are other verses which are optional. |
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