(Enter POLICE, marching in single file. They form in 
line, facing audience.)
SOLOS AND CHORUS: When the foeman bares his steel
SERGEANT: When the foeman bares his steel,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We uncomfortable feel,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: And we find the wisest thing,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Is to slap our chests and sing,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: For when threatened with émeutes,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: And your heart is in your boots,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: There is nothing brings it round 
Like the trumpet's martial sound, 
Like the trumpet's martial sound
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.
MABEL: Go, ye heroes, go to glory, 
Though you die in combat gory, 
Ye shall live in song and story. 
Go to immortality! 
Go to death, and go to slaughter; 
Die, and every Cornish daughter 
With her tears your grave shall water. 
Go, ye heroes, go and die!
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go and die! Go, ye heroes, go and 
die!
SERGEANT: Though to us it's evident,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: These attentions are well meant,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Such expressions don't appear,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Calculated men to cheer
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Who are going to meet their fate 
In a highly nervous state.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Still to us it's evident 
These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!

EDITH: Go and do your best endeavour, 
And before all links we sever, 
We will say farewell for-ever. 
Go to glory and the grave!
GIRLS: Go to glory and the grave! 
For your foes are fierce and ruthless, 
False, unnierciful, and truthless; 
Young and tender, old and toothless, 
All in vain their mercy crave.
SERGEANT: We observe too great a stress, 
On the risks that on us press, 
And of reference a lack 
To our chance of coming back. 
Still, perhaps it would be wise 
Not to carp or criticise, 
For it's very evident 
These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Yes, it's very evident 
These attentions are well meant, 
Evident, yes, well meant, evident 
Ah, yes, well meant!
POLICE: 
When the foeman bares his steel, etc.
GIRLS: 
Go, ye heroes, go to glory! etc.
GENERAL: Away, away!
POLICE: (without moving) Yes, yes, we go.
GENERAL: These pirates slay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then do not stay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then why this delay?
POLICE: All right, we go.
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe! 
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe! 
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: At last they go! 
At last they really go!