Boots

[Intro]
We're foot-slog-slog-slog-sloggin' over Africa—
Foot-foot-foot-foot-sloggin' over Africa—
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!

[Verse 1]
Seven, six, eleven, five, nine-and-twenty miles a day—
Four, eleven, seventeen, thirty-two the day before—
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!

[Verse 2]
Don't-don't-don't-don't look at what's in front of you
(Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up an' down again!)
Men-men-men-men-men go mad with watchin' them
There's no discharge in the war!

[Verse 3]
Try, try to think of something different—
Oh my God, keep mе from goin' lunatic!
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in this war!

[Verse 4]
Count-count-count-count thе bullets in the bandoliers
If your eyes drop, they will get atop of you, then
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!

[Verse 5]
We can stick out hunger, thirst, and weariness
But not-not-not-not the chronic sight of them—
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!

[Verse 6]
'Tain't so bad by day because of company
But night brings long strings of forty thousand million
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!

[Outro]
I have marched six weeks in Hell and certify
It is not fire, devils, dark, or anything but
Boots-boots-boots-boots movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge from the war!