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(John) Well, well, well
Let's have a drink on it
As me father used to say
When the truth is nobly spoken
It's respect you've got to pay
So fill your cup
And lift it up
And, clink, here's how
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(Angie) Right
(John) Right
Well, well, well
Let's have a drink on it
To them fighting legionaries
To their outpost in the desert
And their gorgeous Croix de Guerres
(Angie) To sailing for Bengasi
On a rusty scow
(John) No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(Both) No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(John) What do you do when the water's gone
And there's no turning back
You're four days from the fort
The Arab renegades attack
And the blistering sun keeps burning
Reinforcements can't get through
What do you do about it
What do you do about it
Do you blister easily
(Angie) Yes, as a matter of fact
(John) Ah, the Foreign Legion's not for you
(Angie) Right
(John) Right
Well, well, well
Let's have a drink on it
To the simple average life
To the wages every Friday
That you bring home to the wife
To the sweat of honest labor on your average brow
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(All) No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(John) Hey
(All) No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
(John) What do you do when you lose your job
The rent is overdue
The landlord throws you in the street
The wife, the kiddies too
And the sleet and snow are falling
And you've got no place to go
What do you do about it
What do you do about it
The simple average life, sir, no
(Angie) Right
(John) Wrong
(Angie) Well, well, well
Let's have a drink on it
Here's to China 'cross the bay
To them darling little oysters
And the pearls they give away
A man could make his fortune there
I will somehow
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
I'm off to China now
(Company) Well, well, well
Once last drink
Then you're on your merry way
(John) What do you do when you sampan springs a leak in China Bay
(Company) When the truth is nobly spoken
It's respect you've got to pay
(John) Them Oriental Pirates come and take your pearls away
(Company) So fill your cup
And lift it up
And clink, here's how
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now
No shilly shallying
No dilly dallying
Let's have a drink on it now