ゆくぞ　ぐんたい

(The Brave Old Duke Of York)

オー　あのぐんたい

ゆく　いちまんにん

やまにのぼってゆくよ

そしてくだるよ

のぼればうえだ

くだればしただ

のぼるのとちゅうでやめれば

どっちでもない

Oh, the brave old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.

And when they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.

　原詩で歌われているヨーク公 (Duke of York) が誰であるかは定説のようなものがあるのですが、実際には疑問なのだとか。