The Mahdi's Battle Song.
I'm a desert.. hyjepa, I am, ■' • I And dwell ih: the sanely Soudan •• ■ I can augur and shoot and the Britisher 9 .,.; -,.v-lQpy--; - - -;'^\: r * ■■.'. Froom. ■ Beersheba clear into Dan. t Whoop! j ' .......... «. -.■ ; I have ostrich on toast. every day— c «■■ I ea^ one at a meal; by jthefwa^ ; •:> l I like tsroccodile' stevv, wtlf' a jackal or Just to eat for dessert, aa they say.^- : I'm ; the twelve-fingered Mahdi, lain, - And I'm KinS of the Sandy Soudan"; 'I'ni a tailless baboon and a roaring simoon : "• ;' ; \ I can the British; I can. 1 I have men by the million or more, ; : And concubines, too, by the;, score ; ' I'm, a son oia gun froni the 'land of the ■ sun, • • . !■■■. '..-• ■ ■--;' • A I'm a red-handed Arab for gore. Then, whoop ! for the Sandy Soudan, Let anyone stop me who can' ; ' ,I'm a crooked-eyed, bow-legged son or a . Run, . : .. -■; I'm for gorer^-I'm a -very bad tnari. TTTI ' * 14 '*' '' •' - 'V : I*"' ■ .JWhqopi .-:.,.-:- -.-.■ ■■„•_ ' * '• 0 :;,:}■-.£*" ,\> : &dlvest6n' r Newß.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 66, 17 August 1885, Page 4
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164The Mahdi's Battle Song. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 66, 17 August 1885, Page 4
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