On an isle far away one man sits "Tell us why" his hosts cry; and he spits "Do the worst that you can I'll remain a free man!" Two years later they've lost, and he splits.
Thx Stevie. Then maybe this one is from before WWI?? There was a young man from Cape Horn who wished he had never been born And he shouldn't have been if his father had seen that the top of the rubber was torn.