Sam's Christmas Pudding-Stanley Holloway

[ti:Sam's Christmas Pudding] [ar:Stanley Holloway] [al:Pick up That Musket] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sam's Christmas Pudding - Stanley Holloway [00:10.73]It was Christmas day in the trenches [00:13.26] [00:13.76]In Spain in peninsular war [00:15.96] [00:16.77]And Sam small were cleaning his musket [00:20.01]A thing as he'd near done before [00:22.32] [00:23.25]They had them inspected that morning [00:25.92]And Sam had got into disgrace [00:28.25] [00:29.12]For when sergeant had looked down the barrel [00:32.35]A sparrow flew out in his face [00:34.93] [00:35.54]The sergeant reported the matter [00:38.40]To lieutenant bird then and there [00:41.23]Said lieutenant how justly disgusting [00:45.06] [00:45.82]The duke must be told of this eye [00:48.32] [00:48.82]The duke were upset when he heard [00:51.82] [00:52.38]He said I'm astonished I am [00:55.32] [00:55.91]I must make a most drastic example [00:58.91] [00:59.42]There'll be no Christmas pudding for Sam [01:03.09]When Sam were informed of his sentence [01:06.99]Surprise rooted him to the spot [01:10.10] [01:10.78]Twice much worse than he had expected [01:13.97]He thought as he'd only be shot [01:16.22] [01:17.52]And so he sat cleaning his musket [01:20.60] [01:21.13]And polishing barrel and butt [01:24.17]While the pudding his mother had sent him [01:27.63]Lay there in the mud at his foot [01:30.67] [01:31.75]Now the centre that Sam's lot were holding [01:35.65]Ran around a place called Badajoz [01:38.61] [01:39.23]Where the Spaniards had put up a bastion [01:42.46] [01:43.40]And oh what a bastion it was [01:45.48] [01:46.40]They pounded away all the morning [01:49.38]With canister grape shot and ball [01:52.43]But the face of the bastion defied them [01:56.31]They made no impression at all [01:58.24] [01:58.75]They started again after dinner [02:01.40]Bombarding as hard as they could [02:04.08] [02:04.67]And the duke brought his own private cannon [02:08.20] [02:09.19]But that weren't day pence oh good [02:11.00] [02:11.80]The duke said Sam put down they musket [02:16.35]And help me to lay this gun true [02:18.80] [02:19.62]Sam answered you'd best ask your favors [02:23.13]From them as you give pudding to [02:25.26] [02:26.69]The duke looked at Sam so reproachful [02:30.63] [02:31.46]And don't take it that way said he [02:34.08] [02:34.89]Us generals have got to be ruthless [02:37.70] [02:38.53]It hurts me more than it did there [02:41.51] [02:42.42]Sam sniffed at these words kind of sceptic [02:46.51] [02:47.41]Then looked down the duke's private gun [02:50.43]And said we'd best put in two charges [02:53.92] [02:54.64]We'll never bust bastion with one [02:57.94]He tipped cannon ball out of muzzle [03:00.98]He took out the wadding and all [03:03.08]He filled barrel chock full of powder [03:05.87]Then picked up and replaced the ball [03:08.88] [03:09.65]He took a good aim at the bastion [03:12.89]Then said right oh duke let her fly [03:16.34] [03:16.93]The cannon nigh jumped off her trillions [03:20.44] [03:21.14]And up went the bastion sky high [03:24.43] [03:26.38]The duke he weren't alu elated [03:29.65] [03:30.22]He danced around trench full of glee [03:32.93] [03:33.54]And said Sam for this gallant action [03:38.01]You can hot up your pudding for tea [03:40.26] [03:41.49]Sam looked round to pick up his pudding [03:44.29] [03:45.08]But it wasn't there nowhere about [03:47.60] [03:48.43]In the place where he thought he had left it [03:51.34] [03:52.01]Lay the cannon ball he'd just tipped out [03:55.49] [03:56.09]Sam saw in a flash what ad happened [03:59.74] [04:00.59]By an unprecedented mishap [04:03.10] [04:03.83]The pudding his mother had sent him [04:06.65]Had blown Badajoz off the map [04:09.44] [04:10.82]That's why fusilier wear at today this moment [04:14.42]A badge which they thinks a grenade [04:17.83]But they're wrong it's a brass reproduction [04:22.64]Of the pudding Sam's mother once made