When the foreign hordes come marching into town, will you be prepared to stand those buggers down? They'll do their level best to take all that's rightly yours, and it's your sole duty to keep them from our shores! The readiness is all! (When the greenhorn muscles in!) Oh, the readiness is all! (To face down an alien!)
If all you see around you are yellow, black, and brown And they've got their sights on all the pure sweet white girls in your town Lock your pistols, load the cannons Make sure bayonets are fixed Or else you'll rue the day that the races intermix The readiness is all! (There are strangers in our land!) Oh, the readiness is all! (We must keep the upper hand!)
The readiness is all! (When your back's against the wall!) Oh, the readiness is all! (When you should be standing tall!)