i don't like to see my mummy cry,
i don't like to see my mummy cry, I don't liketo see my mummy sigh.
 I'm going on a big ship, across the raging main.
 I'm going to fight the boers, I am, and bring my daddy home again.
 ----------------------------------------------- brad tate collected this song from tommy anderson of wallsend, nsw, boer war veteran, in 1978.
 tommy enlisted in the army from christchurch, nz in 1900.
 tommy said the boers were great horsemen, rifle shots, but they were guerilla fighters, and not much at facing rifle fire.
 tommy was born in 1885;
 his father was a retired british army sergeant.