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With drums and guns, and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye,
My darling dear, you look so queer,
Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!

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Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.). . .

Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.

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