A little song, it’s just my own, I’d like to sing for you,

About the wagon loafers and theeasy jobs they do;

Jobs like driving Cape Carts,we’ve passedus not a few!

But wait til we get home!

 

Wagon Loafers con’d

 

CHORUS

 

Glory, glory, Hallelujah, repeat

Glory, glory, Hallelujah, wait til we get home!

 

Now if these lads would chuck their jobs, and come backto the ranks;

Come and share the fighting with thelads out on the flanks;

Earning with their comrades, their Country’s grateful thanks-

To Sweets, and home sweet home!

 

At home in old Newcastle, wagon loafers in a bar

Will sponge a drink and spin a yarn about the Great Boer War;

How they made the Dutchmen run in thousands, Ha, Ha, Ha--

Just wait til WE get home!

 

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     Dave Alexander of Sydney gave me the word to this song years ago, before I started recording for the War Memorial--he died before he got to sing it for me.