Oh, my name is What-cha-ma-call me and me father's was as well A little game he taught me and the story I will tell With lots of little soldiers and as sure's the day would come I sent them into battle at the beating of a drum I put them up on a table and I marched them all around I battered em with me cannon balls and watched em falling down I'd lots of little crosses which I laid upon the dead And I patched up all the wounded ones and sent them off to bed When I went 'round the the neighbors for a nickel or a dime To buy some little soldiers just to pass away the time They were always very kindly in supplying me with guns And some of them even let me play at soldiers with their sons I put them up on a table and I marched them all around I battered em with me cannon balls and watched em falling down I'd lots of little crosses which I laid upon the dead And I patched up all the wounded ones and sent them off to bed Whenever I went to the shop to buy me guns and tanks The man there always smiled, patted me head and whispered "thanks, If it wasn't for your soldier game I don't know what I'd do Well ya keep me business busy son, so here's and extra few" I put them up on a table and I marched them all around I battered em with me cannon balls and watched em falling down I'd lots of little crosses which I laid upon the dead And I patched up all the wounded ones and sent them off to bed One day I bought some aeroplanes, but this is what I found When I sent them into battle to help me soldiers on the ground They bombed up every soldier and the proved a terrible flop And I had to buy another hundred crosses from the shop I put them up on a table and I marched them all around I battered em with me cannon balls and watched em falling down I'd lots of little crosses which I laid upon the dead And I patched up all the wounded ones and sent them off to bed I'd very much like to teach this game of soldiers and of guns To me fourteen lovely daughters, me seven handsome sons The man in the shop gave me a bomb, he took it off the shelf And he bombed up every soldier, me neighbors and me self I put them up on a table and I marched them all around I battered em with me cannon balls and watched em falling down I'd lots of little crosses which I laid upon the dead And I patched up all the wounded ones and sent them off to bed