Rest And Recreation

Four years at the front

Give a man a zest

For a little rest

And recreation

For the chance to hunt

For the spiciest

In the way of rest

And recreation

Give me your girls of pleasure

Your grapes of Merlot

Show me your wares and measure

One large sample

Sample them at my leisure

This three-day furlough

Should be ample

I have born the brunt

Of a soldier's test

Now I've made my way

Where I get to play

At rest and recrea-

Cannon fodder lying in the field below the castle

Is this the third week or the fourth week of the siege?

The air filled with a stench of bodies in a trench

Whoever pays the most I call My Liege

Summoned here to Paris now

I'm far away from battle

From clotting blood and rotting wounds

Of dead and dying men

And whatever I do

I'll make sure this is true

I will never go back again!

Darling, to be blunt

You are with the best

That's why I've been blessed

With this promotion

I've been working hard

Now I'm gonna be

Captain of the Guard

Ain't that a notion?

Like other true knights

I've got ambition

But for a few nights

Fun is my mission

So what do you say

Care to share a day

Of rest and recreation

Captain, welcome to the Cathedral Guard

I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve you, my Lord

Your early arrival is most auspicious

The pestilence of these gypsies grows more dangerous every day

Captain, you and I

Have a task we share

Stopping them and their

Proliferation

Paris looks to us to us

To rid her streets of crime

To rid her streets

This is war and thus of crime

There is no time for

Rest and recreation