War Poetry

Whether in the Garden or in the Orchard
(with the participation of the leaders in the wars, Franz-Josef and Wilhelm the Second.)

Whether in the garden or in the orchard,
We will sing a funny song.
Franz and Wilhelm, in front of everyone,
Have really shamed themselves.
For forty years Wilhelm secretly
Planned to wage war,
But he has had to make
A lot of flagrant mistakes.
He set off for Paris
To have a nice tasty lunch there,
But he ended up having to find victuals
A little closer to home.
As he approached Paris and all along the way
He came across Frenchmen.
And that Frenchman as a result
[Unintelligible].
There in the West he had wanted to eat
His fill of Frenchmen,
But Wilhelm, turning to the devil,
Came to get the Russians.
But the Russians present a united front
Everything is going great.
They shoved some pepper
right where Wilhelm needed it.
Franz and Wilhelm
Are having terrible luck,
Our boys are beating him, the rogue,
On an hourly basis.
Without a backward glance
Our soldiers drove poor Franz,
From the border to the Carpathians, and
Only heels flashed before their eyes.
As leathernecks, Austrians
Are worth a lot,
So much so that our Cossacks
Really make ‘em sweat!
Just as soon as one of our Cossacks
Descends on these bloodsuckers,
The uniforms of all the Austrians
Get wet.
The Germans won’t forget this encounter
With us on the Neman.
We already know beforehand
Who is going to find victory!
Franz and Wilhelm, in front of everyone,
Prance through the prisons.
In the garden or in the orchard
They will dance together!

by “Bim-Bom”