They'll talk to us o' the state.

The state's a grand thing--a great thing.

D'ye ken what the state is these new fangled folk are aye talkin' of?
It's no new thing.

It's just the bit country Britons ha' been dying for, a' these weary years in the trenches.

It's just Britain, the land we've a' loved and wanted to see happy and safe--safe frae the Hun and frae the famine he tried to bring upon it.