| The king was going on a trip to a foreign country.
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| The queen dried a bag of crackers for him
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| And sewed up the old mantle so neatly,
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| I gave him a pack of shag and salt in a rag.
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| And put her hands on the king's chest,
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| She said to him, caressing him with a radiant look:
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| “Better beat them, otherwise you will be branded as a pacifist,
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| And don't forget to take sweet gingerbread from the enemy."
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| And the king sees - his army is standing in the middle of the courtyard.
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| Five sad soldiers, five cheerful soldiers and a corporal.
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| The king said to them: "We are not afraid of neither the press nor the wind,
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| We will beat the enemy, and we will come with victory, and cheers!”
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| But now the triumph of farewell speeches has died down.
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| On the campaign, the king changed his army:
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| He immediately appointed merry soldiers quartermasters,
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| And he left the sad ones in the soldiers - "Perhaps, nothing."
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| Imagine, the victorious days have come.
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| Five sad soldiers did not return from the military battle.
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| Corporal, morally unstable, married a prisoner,
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| But they took a whole bag of gingerbread.
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| Play, orchestras, sound, and songs and laughter.
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| Minute sadness is not worth it, friends, to indulge.
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| After all, it makes no sense for sad soldiers to stay alive,
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| And gingerbread, by the way, is always not enough for everyone. |