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Marksman Sam chords by 
Stanley Holloway
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Verse 1
G
When Sam Small joined
the regiment,
he were nobita raw recruit,
C
G
and they marched him away
C
one wintry day,
G
his musket course to shoot.
They woke him up at the crack of dawn
with many a nudge and shake.
He were dreaming that Sergeant
D
had broke his neck
and he didn't want awake.
G
Lieutenant Bird came on parade
Am
and chided the lads for mooning.
G
C
He talked in a voice like a pound of plums.
G
His tonsils needed pruning.
Move to the right by fours,
he said, crisp like,
but most severe.
But Sam didn't know he's right from his left,
D
so pretended he didn't hear.
Said Lieutenant, Sergeant,
take that man's name."
G
The sergeant took out his pencil.
He was getting ashamed
D
of taking Sam's name
and was thinking of cutting a stencil.
Sam carried a musket,
a knapsack and coat,
C
spare boots that he'd
managed to wangle,
D
an hatchet, a spade.
In fact, as Sam said, he'd
got everything by a kitchen mangle.
G
"'March easy, men,'
Lieutenant cried,
as the musket range grew near.
"'March easy, me
blushing Aunt Fanny,'
D
said Sam.
"'What a chance with
G
all this here!'
Em
G
When they told him to fire at five hundred yards,
B
Sam nearly had a fit
G
for a six -foot wall
D
or the Albert Hall,
G
D
for all he were likely to hit.
He had fitted a cork
in his musket end
to keep his powder dry,
and he didn't remember to take it out
G
D
the first time he let fly.
G
D
His gun went off with a kind of pop.
G
D
Where his bullet went no one knew,
G
but next day they spoke
of a tinker's moke
D
G
being killed by a cork near Crewe.
At three hundred yards
Sam shut his eyes
and took a careful lame.
He failed to score, but the marker swore,
D
and walked away quite lame.
At two hundred yards
C
G
Sam fired so wild
D
that the sergeant feared for his skin,
G
and the lads all cleared
into the neighbouring field
D
G
and started to dig themselves in.
B
Oh, sergeant,
G
I hear a scraping noise,
said Sam.
What can it be?
D
The noise that he heard were Lifton and Bird,
who were climbing the nearest
tree.
Oh, Sergeant, said Sam,
I've hit the bull,
G
D
what price my shooting
now?
Said the Sergeant,
G
A bull, you gormless fool,
D
yon isn't a bull, it's a cow.
G
Bm
At fifty yards his musket kicked,
G
D
and went off with a noise like a blizzard,
Em
D
G
and down came a crow looking fair
surprised with his ram
C
D
rod through its gizzard.
G
C
As he loaded his musket to fire again
said the sergeant,
G
D
don't waste shot.
You'd best fix bayonets
and charge my lad.
G
It's the only chance you've got.
Em
Sam kept loading his gun
Am
B
while the sergeant spoke
C
Em
till the bul lets peeped
G
B
out at the muzzle.
Em
When all of a sudden it
D
went off bang.
What made it go off were a puzzle.
G
Am
D
The bullets flew out in a kind of spray,
G
D
and everything round got peppered.
G
When they counted his score,
he'd got eight bullseyes,
four magpies,
G
two lambs and a shepherd.
D
Em
And the sergeant for this got a DCM,
and the colonel an OBE.
D
G
C
Lieutenant Baird got a DSO,
D
G
and Sam got five days' C .B.
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