Lyrics

[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!