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Abdul the Bulbul Emir; A ribald army song titled "Stella,
the Belle of Fedala" was set to this tune by troops in
North Africa early in 1943. Two innocent stanzas appear in
Erich Posselt's collection G.I. Songs (New York, 1945? pseudo-
nym "Edgar A. Palmer"), but the full text can be found in an
anonymous booklet called The Fifth Army Songbook, published
in 1943, probably in Casablanca. A copy resides in the
Music Division of the New York Public Library. Here's the tex
Now every young Yank who was in Casablanca
Knows Stella, the nelie of Fedala.
A can of C ration would whip up a passion
In this little gal of Fedala.
'This Arabic honey has no use for money,
She spurns even five hundred franc notes.
In order to win .her, just buy her a dinner,
It's much more effective than banknotes.
This nomadic titmouse was built like a —
She's the object of every young fella.
She's not TBA but she's with us to stay,
Is Stella, the Belle of Fedala.
She's not so good-looking, but she knows what's cooking,
Her dress doesn't even unbuckle.
Just give her some food and she gets in the mood
To play a few hands of pinochle.
We-recall that morning when quite without warning
We landed and .we were not seasick,
Till we spotted the lass with the delicate "
On the banks of the Wadi Nefifikh.
The bullets were flying and we were all trying
To get up enough nerve to risk it,
When we spotted the wench in the Colonel's slit trench
Chewing a C ration biscuit.
The thing that we prize is the size of her eyes,
And her voice that is low, soft, and mellow,
And her scent would, be sweet, if she'd wash her feet,
Oh, Stella, the Belle of Fedala.
Her mother was more than a fifty franc whore,
She took in the Task Force for. roomers.
But her father would squat by the wall in Rabat
And ---?• through a hole in his bloomers.
Pi M
The boys from Lyautey say Stella is
And behaves in a scandalous fashion?
enever this cutie falls over for
nty
She * s merely attached for the ration
When hungry she'd curse like a 59th nurse
And even the sergeants shed tears.
But when near a kitchen she'd lay off the
stuff it in up to her ears.
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Almee McPhersont "The Ballad of Aimee McPherson" learned ‘
■"via Pete Seeger via John A. Lomax, Jr." appears on'pp. 62-63
of The Panic Is On, compiled by Jerry Silverman (New York,1966).
A-Rovingi A four-stanza version with the chorus appears
in Immortalla under the title "No More A-Rovln*" . The word
made to rhyme with'main hatch" in this text is "thatch" (rather
than "snatch"), indicating a British, perhaps nineteenth
century, provenience. In his latest book, Shanties and Sailor
Songs (New York, 1969)1 Stan Huglll prints a softened text, but
one which is a bit more forthright than that in his previous
collection. He also reprints Heywood's song from The Rape
of Lucrece, often erroneously cited as an early version of
the shanty.
The Ball of Kirriemuiri Oscar Brand sings further verses on
his LP Sing-Along Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads (Audio-Fidelity
AFLP I97TTT In the booklet accompanying their field recording
of Songs of Seduction, Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy mention the
song in passing and identify its tune as that of "Castles in the
Air". On page 205 of his second collection, More Irish Street
Ballads (Dublin, 1965) notes "The Stuttering Loverst# and says i - ^
"A children's song 'Castles in the Air*', 'The Kielder
Schottlsche', and a ribald song in Edinburgh all go to this air."
The song he has in mind is evidently "The Ball". The air of
"The Stuttering Lovers” is a lively variant of Cray's tune for
"Kirriemuir".
Mil of Yarnt Brand sings two versions. The one which doesn't
appear in his book of Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads can be
heard on his Sing-Along recording.
The Bastard King of England? An interesting variant, from
which the Duke of Essexshire has vanished, is given by Silverman
on pp. 72-73 of Panic as "The Barsted King of England". The /
first line only appears in the AEF newspaper Stars and Stripes,.^1
February 15» 1918, p. 5. This may be the earliest printed
reference to the song, although it's not identified in the
newspaper. That the song was widely popular among servicemen
during the First World War is shown by the existence of a Navy
parody -- actually, an unrelated song to the King's melody —
called "The Song of the Officer's Torpedo Class". This has
seen print several times, most notably in the Trident Society's
Book of Navy Songs (New York, 1925)•
Immortalla gives a full text of "The Bastard King" and
attributes it to Rudyard Kipling. This text is most notable
because it looks like a recitation rather than a song to be
sung. The diction is that of a poet rather than "folk"
artist. And there's no chorus. (Interestingly, the Navy
song cited above doesn't provide for a chorus either. Nor
do the expurgated texts given by Dolph and Niles provide for
any kind of chorus.) The history of this song, if it's ever
written, might shed a lot of light upon the origin and popularity
of bawdy song in general.
Bang Away, Lulut Another AEF favorite, Laurence Stallings
gives the chorus, softened only slightly, in Chapter 22 of
The Doughboys (New York, 1963)• John Dos Passos has this
version of the chorus in Part III of his novel, Three Soldiers
*
tNew York, 1921) t
0 my girl's a lulu, every inch a lulu,
Is Lulu, that pretty 111* girl o' mi-ine.
"While touring California in 1928, Allen Walker Head
frequently encountered the first stanza of "Lulu".,
appropriately scrawled on lavatory walls. These^'are
printed unexpurgated in his book Lexical Evidence from
Folk Epigraphy (Paris, 1935; privately printed and
limited to 75 autographed copies.)
A fine version can be found in Immortalla as "My Lulu",
including this choice stanzas
My Lulu was arrested,
Ten dollars was the fine—
She said to the Judge
"Take it out of this ass of mine,"
"Lulu" is usually sung to a tune very similar to that
of "I Can Whip the Scoundrel" given by Irwin Silber in Songs
of. the Civil War (New York, 19&0), The tune seems to have
been widespread as a vehicle for soldier's verses during the
War Between the States, and it seems likely that Lulu got her
start no later than the 1860's.
We used to chant these verses in the Cub Scouts during
the late fifties to a tune which is usually associated with
"The Dying Hobo"*
ft
I took her to the baseball game
To see the batters hit.
~ The first fly ball fell in the stands
And hit her on the tit.
Lulu had a bicycle,
The seat was made of glass,
Every time she sat on it
She landed on her ass.
Lulu went to a football game
To see the players punt,
The football flew into the stands
And went right up her cunt,
A related fragment entitled "Poor White Trash"
appears in Immortalla*
The rich man uses vaseline,
The poor man uses lard,
The nigger uses axle-grease,
But he gets it twice as hard $
Bell Bottom Trousers* An unusual version which turns upon
venereal disease rather than pregnancy for its effect appears
in Immortalla as "Down in New Orleans." Four stanzas
irair~iiitliniiiuiMi]n>i'iiii n—iiiiniriiinnii iiiirrnniiri r nr"irmai -1-mn
called "The Boy Child" appear in Louis Chappell's Folksongs
of Roanoke and the Albemarle (Morgantown, W. Va., 1939), which
take this song back to the nineteenth century*
0 sir, be easy when you first begin,
1 gave a shove and she gave a spring
And then she lies smiling
With it eleven Inches in.
it is all over
1 wish it was all in
Fourteen inches longer
And three times as big ag*
is a girl child
Dink him /sic/ on my knee.
If it is a boy child
off to sea.
His low-quartered shoes'
And his jacket shall be blue.
And he shall walk the quarterdeck
s daddy used to do.
A good version, sung by British troops during the
-First World War, appears on p,68 of The Long Trad 1, by
John Brophy and Eric Partridge (New York, 1965), under
the title "Never Trust a Sailor”, The indicated tune is
wDh Susannah," Brophy and Partridge give this stanza,
which betrays the entire spirit of the song as no other
t
-bottomed trousers
a coat of navy blue,
And make him climb the rigging
■AS-his daddy climbed up you,
A close parody, sung by American ski troopers during
World War XI is printed in George P, Earle’s History of
the 87th 'Mountain Infantry--Italy, 1.9^5 (Denver , 19^7 )■«
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•In this one, a ski trooper comes to a mountain inn, and
Ipoor barmaid is
mourn *
For 1
T*ve
now 100K ax me:
a bastard in the Mountain
A similar version, giving "Pack Artillery", was published
“the Journal of American Folklore,
Fig Black. Bull 1 Brophy and Partridge give a British text
From World War I on p.^4 of The Long Trail, "sung to
a traditional Somerset tune", .It is shorter than Cray's,
otherwise similar, even to the chorus, given as "Buston,
-Dan
by Turdst One stanza appears in Blaine Shepard's
Book about the U.S, Air Force in Vietnam, The Doom Pus
he next time you cross over Winchester Bridge,
Watch out for an old man asleep on the edge,
His chest bears a placard and on it is writ,
"Be kind to an old man who's been blinded by shit
-should be noted that Oscar Brand
sn*t si
this to
the "Vllllklns" tune. I haven't identified its source,
but Brand uses it again for "Lee's Hoochie" on Out of the
Blue (Elektra LP EKS~71?8)f thus giving t
song a refrain
iWfis, ■
rI "Believe we can/Sthe origins of this song back to
the~Ilate seventeenth century. In his collection of Merry
Songs and. Ballads, John S. Parmer prints this broadside,
taken from the 1707 edition of Wit and Mirth (vol. Ill, p, 130)s
AS THE FRYER HE WENT ALONG
As the Fryer he went along, and a pouring in his Book
At last he spy'd a Jolly brown Wench a washing of her Buck,
-’ SIng, Stow the Fryer, stow the Fryer,
Some good Man, and let this fair Maid go,
^The^Fryer he pull'd out and a Jolly T—d as such as he could handle,
Fair Maid, quoth he, if thou carriest Fire in thy A---------, come
r; light me the same Candle.
Sing, Stow the Fryer, stow the Fryer,
. , Some good Man, and let this fair Maid go.
■’ ^ ... ;fT-’
The Maid she sh— and a Jolly brown T--- out of her Jolly brown Hole,
Good Sir, quoth she, if you will a Candle light come blow this same Col
- Sing, Stow the Fryer, stow the Fryer,
, Some good Man, and let this fair Maid go.
Part of the Sparks flew into the North, and part into the South,
And; part of this jolly brown T--- flew into the Fryer's mouth.
Sing, Stow the Fryer, stow the Fryer,
Some good Man and let this fair Maid go.
Bolloc-hy- Bill the Sailor? A text is in Immortalla. On his LP
Every Inch, a Sailor (Elektra EKL-I69), Oscar Brand sings a very
full version (naturally expurgated as "Barnacle Bill) which
manages to avoid four-letter words without sacrificing its
bawdy theme. The song was well-known in the British Army during
World War I? in his collection of Tommy * s Tunes (London, 1917),
Lieut, F. T. Nettleinghame mentions the title "B. Bill the Sailor"
as a popular but unprintable song.
I once heard this final stanza to the conversation between
the,sailor and the girli
"What If you should go to jail?
„ What if you should go to jail?
.::;What if yoxi should go to jail?"
, Cried the fair young maiden.
; "I'd take out my cock and pick the lock!"
Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
You can't keep a good man down. Note that in current
tradition, a bow has been made to tin-pan alley and the hero's
name has become standardized.
Casey-Jonest This fragment appears in Nelson Algren's first
novel, Somebody in Boots, (New York, 1935)* which deals with
the hobos of the Depressions
"01* Casey Jones was a son of a bitch
He backed his engine in a forty-foot ditch
The boiler busted and the smoke-stack split,
The fireman farted and Casey...., "
Cats on the Booftop* Elaine Shepard gives these two stanzas
In The Doom Fussyt
The donkey in the meadow is a funny bloke,
He very seldom gets his poke,
But when he does he lets it soak
As he revels in the joys of population.
The hippopotamus so it seems
Very seldom has wet dreams,
But when he does it comes in, streams
As he revels in the joys of copulation.
I have little"doubt that the song is of English origin.
Chamber Lye: Bell I. Wiley makes reference to this piece
on p.305 of The Life of Johnny Reb (New York, 194-3)*
"One of the items utilized in the production of niter
was human urine. Jonathan Haralson, Agent of the Nitre and
Mining Bureau at Selma, Alabama, ran a notice in the newspaper
requesting the women of the town to save all the ‘'chamber-lye"
accumulating around their premises so that it might be collected
in barrels sent around by the bureau. This advertisement
allegedly inspired a local wag named Viet mo re to write some
naughty verses chiding Haralson for ungallantry, which in turn
inspired a poetic defense from the accused. The poetic exchange
was supposed to have been printed in broadside form and circulated
among the soldiers in the Petersburg /Va.,/ trenches, much to
their merriment. Be that as it may, there are innumerable copies
of the poems in circulation among descendants of those who wore
the gray,'but unfortunately the content is not of a publishable
character."
Nearly a decade later, in The Life of Billy Yank, (New York,,
1952), Wiley wrote*
"Thomas B. Wetmore*s saltpeter verses, which originated in
the Confederacy,,.crossed over to the Federal lines soon after
their composition....The version published by H. De Marsan
of New York City carried an illustration which is so flagrant
in its vulgarityas to prove conclusively that delicacy was not
a universal trait in the l860s....
78 "In the correspondence of an Ohio Yank was found a poem,
"Jeff Davis' Dream", which for gross obscenity would stand high
in erotic literature of any period. But no information was
given concerning the source or circulation of this item. "
Charlotte the Harlot t Algren gives a fragment, to the tune
of "Long, Long Ago”i
Oh Charlotte the Harlot
The queen of the whores,
Scum of the East Side
Covered with sores.
By the way, "Dinky Die" has been printed several times — I
have seen six texts, all but two essentially the same. The
best appears in John Lahey's Australian Favorite Ballads(New
v mm***#*• »wr— wwi1 th—i ttmmm iiitjwiflaaiiw *
H&Fkt 19o5)• Oscar Brand sings an American Army version
®n Cough1 (Blektra EKL-2^2), But the song originated in
War I, despite the appearance of Lord Gort in later
ve?§%pns} the Australian trench newspaper of 1918, Aussie,
this apparently bowdlerized contributions
He landed- in London and straightway strode
To A#J^P.H,Q. in Horseferry Road,
M-hen-a buckshee lance-Jack, a keen-eyed M.P,,
Uald* "There's dirt on your tunic and mud on your knee,"
The JPongo Just gave him a quizzical glance
And said, "I've Just come from the trenches in France,
Inhere shrapnel is flying and comforts are few,
And they won’t wash the trenches, even for you."
--"Lance-Private"
The piece is reprinted in Dorothea York's anthology of war
poetry and songs, Mud and Stars (New York, 1931).
Chisholm Traili A bawdy text essentially similar to Cray's
appears in Immortalia. It even has Bill Taylor's name in that
Stanza about the squaw. Brand sings another ribald text
concerning the intercourse between bugs and other animals
on therrange on Bawdy Sing-Along; this Is different from
J&r&nd*S other text on his Western Songs album.
Christopher Columbo; A good text appears in Immortalia. Posselt
gives a long, expurgated, and unbearably dull text in G,I, Songs
Cod Fish Songt Cray's printed text is virtually identical to
the one sung by Oscar Brand on Bawdy Songs Goes to College; only
the nonsense syllables of the chorus are different.
Darby
y«D. of Guam"
it uses the "
i Brand sings a bawdy Navy creation about "Miss
on his album Every Inch a Sailor (Elektra EKL-169)
Didn't She Ramble" tune.
Do Your .Balls Hang Low?: Brophy and Partridge give this
British Army verse to the "Hornpipe" tune t
Tlddleywinks, old man,
Find a woman if you can,
If you can't find a woman,
Do without, old man,
When the rock of Gibraltar
Takes a flying leap at Malta
You'll never get your ballocks in a corn beef can.
Theyy note 1 "The text is slightly bowdlerized,,..Generally,
the words stopped after the first line and the rest was whistled
In his second collection, More Tommy * s Tune s (London, 1918),
Nettleinghame gives thse seemingly Innocent words, which now
acquire deeper signifloanee t
Tlddley winks, old man,
Kiss a woman if you can,
If you can't have a woman,
I
Kiss an old tin can.
(Whistle here)
Kiss an old tin can.
Mstln, the tune is "The Sailor's Hornpipe.” Brand sings four
stanzas and a chorus to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw" on
his Sing-Along album (as "Do They Hang Too Low?") A single ~
Stanza is given by G. Legman in Rationale of the Dirty Joke, I
(New York, 1968) p. 307. \
The--FI re--Ship; A good version of "Ratcliffe Highway" appears
Unexpurggted in Huglll's Shanties and SailorS* Songs. Silverman
prints a conventional expurgation of "Fire Ship" in The Panic Is On. p.76.
The---Foggy Dewt A remarkable text is sung by English traditional^
Singer Phil Hammond on Lomax and Kennedy's Songs of Seductllon
Album, Silverman prints one much like it -- possibly taken
grom the recording, on pp.68-69 of The Panic Is On. In these
versions, the song is strung out considerably and a great deal
of ribald material is introduced. It is almost certainly a
degeneration of the original love song rather than its pro-
genitor, and I doubt if this form much antedates the twentieth
century. ;
I believe that the earliest text of any form of this song
yet discovered lies among the papers of John Bell in King's
College Library, Newcastle, Bell wrote the song out about 1811.
TheL text (no tune) is given by A.L, Lloyd on pp.213-21^ of Folksong
in England (New York, 1967).
Four Old Whores: A song turning similarly upon the capacities
of various vaginas is given in fragmentary form by T. E. Lawrence
in The Mlnt; he heard it while serving in the R.A.F. under an
assumed name in 1922. Brand sings a full set, slightly cleansed,
On Bawdy Songs Goes to College 1 he calls it "Old Soldiers Never Die,"
but only the chorus relates it to the army song of that name.
Frankie and Johnny; Immortalla gives a version almost identical
to Cray's. The differences are extremely minor-and somewhat
revealing. In the 1927 text, Frankie doesn't take out "a bindle
of horse"j she lived before heroin addiction became a major
problem# but had her own vices 1
Took out a bindle of coke
And snuffed it right up in her head.
Fuck.'Em.All; As "Bless ’Em All," a version appears in C. H.
Ward-Jackson's The Airman's Songbook , (London, 19^5)• He notes
that .the song was written, in 1916 by Fred Godfrey of the Royal
Naval Air Service "in a version not for publication." Besides
the Hughes and Lake version, there were two other tin-pan alley
songs called "Bless 'Em All", both of which were widely "popularized"
during the early forties. Each is of the sticky sweet love
variety, and Fuck 'Em All II may have arisen to parody these?
some of the lines pf each are similar. Or it may have been the
other way around. I have not yet seen an uncensored version
of any kind which can be definitely linked with World War I.
'It should be noted that certain bars of the World War One
song, "I.Want to Go Home" — which dates from 1915 — resemble
those of "Fuck 'Em All."
In The March to Glory (New York, i960) .Robert Leckie
gives a full text of the song as sung by the 0.5. Marines in
Korea, 1951s
Bless 'em all! Bless*em all!
The U.N., the commies and all!
Them slant-eyed Chink soldiers struck Hagaru-rl
And now know the meaning of U.S.M.C.
So we*re saying good-bye to them all,
As home through the mountains we crawl,
The snow is ass-deep to a man in a jeep,
But who*s got a jeep? Bless 'em all!
Bless 'em all! Bless 'em all!
The long and the short and the tall!
We landed at Inchon and old Wolmi-do,
Crossed the Han Elver and took longdong-po.
But we're saying good-bye to it all,
To Hamhung and nungnam and Seoul,
There'll be no gum-beatin', we're glad we're retreatin'*,,
So cheer up, me lads, bless 'em all!
Bless 'em all! Bless 'em all!
: The admirals and commodores all!
Bless General MacArthur and bless Harry, too,
Bless the whole brass-hatted Tokyo crew !
For we're saying good-bye to it all,
We're Truman's police force on call,
So strap your pack back on, the next stop is Saigon.,
And cheer up, me lads, bless 'em all!
Replace the censorable word and you have a classic in that song..
The Fucking Machines Brand sings a softened version on Bawdy
Western Sonp;s to a tune which is wedded to a harmless western
effort, "Great Grand-dad",
Larkin's Singing
imL
ry
wboy
(New
A version of this appears in Margaret
y
ork, 1936). There are several
English songs of the nineteenth century involving sexual contraptions,
such as "The Threshing Machine." The relationship of the industrial
revolution to sexual expression has yet to be explored in full,.
The Gay Caballero; A good text in Immortalla. As early as
a parody of the song was current in the U.S. Navy. Sandburg give
It in his American Songbag, mentioning the "Caballero" by name.
Nettleinghame*s "More
In
o
'cmmy's Tunes;
*0 '
Mee Re e. "
the
introduction
no
An expurgation appears in
he calls the song "Miralto
Nettleinghames first collection he writes, significantly,!
"It Is a great pity that a large number of the wittiest—albeit
of a course kind--the gayest—as regrads tune—and most frequently
sung—therefore popular—creations are so untranslatable asfco
render them unprintable for general consumption, but as some of
them have undoubtedly been In the army for more than one hundred
years, It seems probable that they will remain unwritten
heirlooms for an indefinite period.,,.
* “ "With such songs as "Miralto Me fie,' 'Kafoosalein, the
harlot of Jerusalem,' and 'B. Bill the Sailor,' it is worth
placing on record for all time their titles, though I doubt
very much whether theirrhyming lines will ever find a rest
in the British Museum." 1 • . ,,''.4-:^
- : A man ahead of his time. {J-*4 *
A text is given by Silverman, Panic.
The Good Ship Venus t This one stanza fragment appears in
Ahecdota Americana, a collection of unexpurgated tales*
Little Tommy Tripper,
Naughty little Nipper,
: ....He filled his ass
With broken glass
And circumcised the skipper.
Anecdota was published anonymously In New York in 1927. A
second volitme appeared six years later.
The Hermit * The text given in Immortalla, 1927, is word-for-
word identical with Cray's.
Humoresque * Silverman has a version on p,10, Parts of the
text relate to Immortalla's "Letter from the Village Postmaster"
which fits this tune.
In Kansas * Two variants appear in Immortalla, one as "Over
There," the other as "In Mobile," Silverman gives stanza one
only as "The Eagles They Ply High." I understand that the
following fragment is from a Boyal Navy song of the early forties
' The seagulls they fly high
And they shit right in your eye,
Thank the Lord the cows don't fly.
-Another bawdy version stemming from the Phillipine Insurrection
•of 1899 is well-known in the service as "Zamboanga". Dolph
gives two innocent stanzas, but ribald ones are not hard to
find. The Fifth Army Song Book gives 1
Oh, they live in Nippa Shacks In old Luzon,
Qh, they live in Nippa Shacks in old Luzon,
Oh, they live in Nippa Shacks
——- And they wee-wee through the cracks,
Oh, they live in Nippa Shacks in old Luzon.
In From Here to Eternity, James Jones hast ......—
Oh, we wont come back to Wahoo any more,
Oh, we won't come back to Wahoo any more.
We will fuck your black kanaky,
We will drink your goddamned saki,
BUT we won't come back to Wahoo any more,.
Kathusalem* Nettleinghame mentions this bawdy song by
name in Tommy's Tunes, 191? (See note at "The Gay Caballero",
above.) In More Tommy’s Tunes he gives a chorus only,
with'its tune--none other than "London Bridge" in triple time.
His words*
Oh, Kafoosalem, Kafoosalem, Kafoosalem,
Oh, Kafoosalem, the harlot of Jerusalem.
A fragment of an H.A.P. version current in the fifties
appears in Gordon M. Williams's novel, The Camp (New York, 1966)
One night when out upon a spree
a dirty filthy LAC
found in his pocket one rupee
for the harlot of Jerusalem,
Oh Jerusalem, Methusalem, Jerusalem...
She gave shags for threepenny bits,
She had a pair of swinging tits.
- - She gave birth to illegits,
~ the harlot of Jerusalem.
Lee's Hoochle* Brand sings this to an entirely different
tune on Elektra EKL-178, Out of the Blue.
Lehigh Valley * Cray's text for I is identical to Immortalla's,
except that in the 1927 text "gleet" is given for "sleet."
Immortalla's version of II varies from Cray's only slightly.
The Little Red Train* A version is given in Immortalia, enitled
"The Engineer's Song."
Lydia Pinkham* Immortalla's text- is word-for-word identical
with Cray's, but gives an opening stanzas
Have you ever heard of Lydia Pinkham
And her compound so refined,
It turns pricks to flowing fountains
And makes cunts grow on behind.
Brand sings a version which he calls "Four for Three" on
Bawdy Songs Goes to College.
The Monk of Great Renown* Brand sings an air force version
about the "Pilot of Renown" on SKL-178.
Movin' On* Brand sings two different versions; one for the
army on Cough! (Elektra EKL-2^2), and one for the Marines
(Tell It To The Marines, Elektra SIX-1?^.) In his novel
Valhallaj (New York, 1961), Jere Peacock gives two Marine Corps
stanzas*
Doggie and Marine were on the line,
Doggie says, "Marine, you're doin' fine!
But I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone,
They's a-shootin' too fast for my little ol* ass,
And I'm movin' on.
Luke the Gook cornin' down the pass
Playin' the Burp-Gun Boogie on that doggie's ass,
He's movin' on, he'll soon be gone,
They's a-shootin' too fast for his little ol* ass
And he's Pusan bound.
Ky God, How the Money Bolls In; Stars and Stripes. February 15,
£-918', gives one cryptic line* ' ‘
; ,My mother's an apple-pie baker, my father he
fiddles for gin.-.. -
No Balls at Allt An R.AF. parody of the same name, but
dealing with the results of being captured by hostile tribesmen,
began circulating in Iraq in 1925. It is now traditional
in the Boyal Air Force, and Ward-Jackson gives a transparently
expurgated version in The Airman's Songbook as "No Bombs at
All." The tune he gives His excellent—a fine waltz,
American troops in the Aleutians, 19^3» sang a parody called
"No Japs at All," which is given by Earle, He notes that it is
to be simg to "a bar-room ballad" which he declines to name in print.
The Old Gray Bustle» Stanza one appears in Leon Uris's novel,
Battle Cry, (New York, 195*0
O'Belllv's Daughters Describing the Army of Utah, 1858, James
M. Merrill has this passage in his popularly-written story of
the cavalry. ‘Spurs to Glory (New York, 1962):
—**To break the monotony of the regular marches, bands
struck up "One-Eyed Riley,' and men began to sing the coarse
ditty long treasured in the barracks,
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* Jb I was strolling round and round,
— ---—A-huntin* fun in every quarter,
I stopped meself at the little Dutch inn,
— -------And ordered me up gin and warter,
"" CHORUS One Eye Riley, Two Eye Riley,
- • - . Ho! for the land with one eye, Riley!"
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