Ed Bruce - The Ballad of the Drummer Boy lyrics

Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, as you lead them on to war... Beat your drum so loudly, boy! Beat your drum so proudly, boy! Lead them on to the rhythm of your marchin' drum... Though you're not quite turned thirteen, how many battles have you seen? And how many troops have you marched between to the rhythm of your rummy-tum drum? Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, as you lead them on to war... Lead them on to battle, boy! Lead them just like cattle, boy! Lead them on to the d**h or victory... Though you're all before your years, how many time have you hid your fears? And how many times have you shed your tears to the rhythm of your rummy-tum drum? Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, as you lead them on to war... Look out for that soldier, boy! His rifle's at his shoulder, boy! Its aim at the heart of the marchin' drummer boy... A bullet fired swift and keen... Now, a boy not yet thirteen beside his silent drum is seen, as dead as its rummy-tum-tum... Drums are drumming so loudly, boys... Drums are drumming so proudly, boys... Drumming to the memory of that drummer boy... At Lexington unconquered bridge, he beat his drum and he clicked his sticks So remember 1776 and the little drummer boy... Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, for the little drummer boy... Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, for the little drummer boy... Beat your drum with a rummy-tum-tum Click your sticks with a clickity-click Rummy-tum-tum, clickity-click, for the little drummer boy... _____________