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Distant bomb sounds, muddy marching boots and ghostly piano music throughout
A Pierrot troupe? To the Front?
Actresses amongst hordes of men?
What'll you do, sing them to health?
The suspicion of the English with regard to our profession is most curious to me.
You think lie on sofas, drinking champagne.
We don't intend to land in France in tights!
Reputations are earned, Miss Ashwell.
Then let us earn ours
"For in such music is such art, killing care and grief of heart."
# Troupers with a 'U' makes us different to
# The boys in tin hats with bayonettes
# For whom we're gonna do
# A show to make you smile, for a little while
# A song, a dance, a joke perchance
# That. Is our style.
# Ba ba da ba da da!
Distant bomb sounds