⁠⁠⁠Especially when it is twins,
⁠⁠One sharp and one table-topped kopje,
⁠⁠⁠For that's where the trouble begins.
⁠⁠You can never be, etc.

Only two African kopjes
⁠Baited the same as before—
Only we've had it so often,
⁠Only we're taking no more ...
Only a wave to our troopers,
⁠Only our flanks swinging past,
Only a dozen voorloopers,
⁠Only we've learned it at last!

⁠⁠Then mock not the African kopje,
⁠⁠⁠But take off your hat to the same,
⁠⁠The patient, impartial old kopje,
⁠⁠⁠The kopje that taught us the game!
⁠⁠For all that we knew in the Columns,
⁠⁠⁠And all they've forgot on the Staff,
⁠⁠We learned at the fight o' Two Kopjes,
⁠⁠⁠Which lasted two years an' a half.