Old Sam's Christmas Pudding-Stanley Holloway/Gene Autry

[ti:Old Sam's Christmas Pudding] [ar:Stanley Holloway] [al:Santa's Christmas Classics Vol. 10] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Old Sam's Christmas Pudding - Stanley Holloway/Gene Autry [00:11.08]It was christmas day in the trenches [00:13.34] [00:14.21]In spain in penninsular war [00:16.20] [00:17.28]And sam small were cleaning his musket [00:19.77] [00:20.82]A thing as he'd nere done before [00:22.56] [00:23.89]They'd had em inspected that morning [00:25.90] [00:26.60]And sam had got into disgrace [00:28.52] [00:29.69]For when sergeant had looked down the barrel [00:32.27] [00:33.22]A sparrow flew out in his face [00:35.16] [00:36.66]The sergeant reported the matter [00:38.32] [00:39.03]To lieutenant bird then and there [00:40.92] [00:42.09]Said lieutenant how justly disgusting [00:45.22] [00:46.41]The duke must be told of this eye [00:48.46] [00:49.90]The duke were upset when he heard [00:52.12] [00:53.44]He said i'm astonished i am [00:55.82] [00:56.61]I must make a most drastic example [00:59.20] [01:00.34]There'll be no christmas pudding for sam [01:03.06] [01:04.29]When sam were informed of his sentence [01:07.21] [01:07.96]Surprise rooted him to the spot [01:10.74] [01:11.63]Twice much worse than he had expected [01:13.73] [01:14.97]He thought as he'd only be shot [01:16.76] [01:18.34]And so he sat cleaning his musket [01:20.88] [01:21.99]And polishing barrel and butt [01:24.18] [01:25.06]While the pudding his mother had sent him [01:27.82] [01:28.61]Lay there in the mud at his foot [01:31.35] [01:32.91]Now the centre that sam's lot were holding [01:35.52] [01:36.45]Ran around a place called badajoz [01:39.04] [01:40.28]Where the spaniards had put up a bastion [01:42.40] [01:44.25]And oh what a bastion it was [01:46.14] [01:47.61]They pounded away all the morning [01:49.41] [01:50.20]With canister grape shot and ball [01:52.41] [01:53.49]But the face of the bastion defied them [01:56.44] [01:57.12]They made no impression at all [01:58.83] [01:59.86]They started again after dinner [02:01.58] [02:02.42]Bombarding as hard as they could [02:04.84] [02:05.67]And the duke brought his own private cannon [02:08.87] [02:10.42]But that weren't day pence oh good [02:11.79] [02:13.11]The duke said sam put down they musket [02:16.39] [02:17.18]And help me lay this gun true [02:19.45] [02:20.78]Sam answered you'd best ask your favours [02:24.18]From them as you give pudding to [02:26.17] [02:27.71]The duke looked at sam so reproachful [02:31.26] [02:32.40]And don't take it that way said he [02:34.81] [02:35.98]Us generals have got to be ruthless [02:38.04] [02:39.65]It hurts me more than it did there [02:42.00] [02:43.80]Sam sniffed at these words kind of sceptic [02:47.03] [02:48.50]Then looked down the duke's private gun [02:50.89] [02:51.81]And said we'd best put in two charges [02:54.18] [02:55.67]We'll never bust bastion with one [02:58.16] [02:59.39]He tipped cannon ball out of muzzle [03:01.23] [03:01.79]He took out the wadding and all [03:03.27] [03:04.11]He filled barrel chock full of powder [03:05.99] [03:07.15]Then picked up and replaced the ball [03:09.56] [03:10.82]He took a good aim at the bastion [03:12.71] [03:13.96]Then said right oh duke let her fly [03:16.79] [03:18.03]The cannon nigh jumped off her trunnions [03:20.90] [03:22.19]And up went the bastion sky high [03:25.11] [03:27.52]The duke he weren't alf elated [03:30.13] [03:31.11]He danced around trench full of glee [03:33.62] [03:34.41]And said sam for this gallant action [03:38.18] [03:39.23]You can hot up your pudding for tea [03:40.87] [03:42.58]Sam looked round to pick up his pudding [03:44.78] [03:46.18]But it wasn't there nowhere about [03:48.11] [03:49.29]In the place where he thought he had left it [03:51.98] [03:52.87]Lay the cannon ball he'd just tipped out [03:55.95] [03:57.09]Sam saw in a flash what ad happened [04:00.10] [04:01.36]By an unprecedented mishap [04:03.53] [04:04.56]The pudding his mother had sent him [04:06.80] [04:07.37]Had blown badajoz off the map [04:09.96] [04:11.44]That's why fuisilliers wear at today this moment [04:14.41] [04:15.41]A badge which they think's a grenade [04:17.52] [04:18.80]But they're wrong it's a brass reproduction [04:22.54] [04:23.32]Of the pudding sam's mother once made