Ed Note: Well Steve, many thanks for your contribution. The fact is I have recieved two different choruses, and no less than twenty four verses to the following song, so in the interest of brevity (this song is not brief) I have picked about half of them. If you run outta beer first, just switch to sloe gin fizzes until I post some more :->> Jon

Chorus: (Sung after each verse)

We are, we are, we are, we are, the Combat ENGINEER'S
we can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty beers
Drink up, drink up, drink up, drink up and come along with us
For we don’t give a damn, for any Old Man, who don’t give a damn for us - Hey

Verses:

Now Venus is a statue made entirely out of stone,
She hasn't a fig leaf on her – she is naked to the bone.
On seeing that her arms we gone, two ENGINEERS discoursed,
Of course the darn thing's broken and should be reinforced!

An ENGINEER and a tanker once found a gallon can
Said the tanker to the ENGINEER "Out drink me if you can!"
The tanker took three drinks and died, his face was turning green.
But the ENGINEER kept drinking, it was only gasoline.

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,
Showing all the villagers her lovely, lily hide
The most observant fellow was an ENGINEER of course,
Was the only one to notice that Godiva rode a horse!

I've come a long, long way she said and I'll go as long and far
with the man who'll help me off my horse and lead me to a bar
The men who helped her off her horse and stood her to a beer,
Were a bleary-eyed surveyor and a drunken ENGINEER!

My father was a miner on the upper Malamute,
My mother was a hostess in a house of ill repute.
When I was only sixteen years, she shouted loud and clear
Get out of the house, become a man, and join the ENGINEERS!

Julius Caesar went to Egypt at the age of 53
Cleopatra’s blood was warm, her heart was young and free
But every night when Julie left her house at 3 o’clock
There was a Roman Engineer awaiting just around the block

Sir Francis Drake and all his men put out for Misery Bay
They heard the Spanish Rum Fleet was heading out that way
But the Engineers had beat them by a night and half a day
And though as drunk as hooligans you still could hear them say

The Air Force and the Navy came to town to have some fun
Down to the taverns where the fiery liquors run
But all they found was broken glass, the Engineers had come
And traded junk filled demo bags for gallon kegs of rum

We lay down all their rolling roads and cut down all their trees
And if the order ever comes, we’d forge the raging seas
When ever they want to sleep awhile, we put them up a town
And we build the blasted bridges so the Infantry won’t drown

We put them over rivers and across the mountain streams
Do everything but tuck them in and wish them pleasant dreams
And when the going’s really tough, and shells do burst our ears
The whole Division’s apt to say, GOD, SEND THE ENGINEERS

We build and blow your bridges and fix your roads up too,
There aren't too many things in life an ENGINEER can't do.
You never seem to need us 'til your minds are filled with fear,
Then the first thing that you call for are the Combat ENGINEERS.

We plan and guard your barriers, and we build your bunkers too,
And each and every war we prove what the ENGINEERS can do.
For in the thick of every fight, the cry has been for years
Come clear the pass, and save our ass, you Combat ENGINEERS.

We lay down their rolling roads
And cut down all the trees;
And if the orders ever came,
We'd forge the raging seas.

Whenever they want to sleep awhile
We put them up a town,
And we build the blasted bridges
So the Infantry won't drown.

We get them over rivers
And across mountain streams
Do everything but tuck them in
And wish them pleasant dreams;

And when the going's really rough
And bombs burst in their ears,
A whole division is apt to pray,
"God, send the Engineers!"

They've a song about the Army
   The Navy and Marines:
They've got one for the Air Force
   The whole darn works it seems.

But they've never taken trouble
   Though we've served them all for years,
To write a verse or two
   For the Corps of Engineers.

We build their roads and airfields
   Their pipelines and their camps,
From underground munitions dumps
   To concrete loading ramps.

Before the others get there
   We had to break the ground,
And we built it all to suit their needs
   Solid, safe and sound.

But the ENGINEERS aren't kicking
   For when their moving in,
We know it's just another place
   Where we've already been.

If the Army and the Navy
   Ever look on Heaven's scene,
'Tis said the streets will be patrolled
   By United States Marines.

Now who will guard the streets up there
   We aren't disposed to say,
But we offer this suggestion
   If they look at things that way:

When the Marines have taken over
   In that land that knows no years,
They'll find it designed and built
   By the Corps of Engineers!

HERE'S A HEALTH TO THE ARMY.
   AND HERE'S A HEALTH TO OUR CORPS;
HERE'S TO THE FLAG FLYING UP ON THE HILL,
   AND THE BIRD FLYING OVER OUR DOOR:
STAND BY WITH YOUR GLASSES ALL BRIMMING,
   HERE'S HEALTH, AND HERE'S HOW, AND HERE'S LUCK.
AND HERE'S TO THE CASTLES OF SILVER WE WEAR.
   AND "THE EAGLE THAT LOOKS LIKE A DUCK."