If You're Nervous in the Service

	Armed with a five-string banjo, Private Pete Seeger was sent to the Marianas to entertain the troops during the second world war.  While there, he learned this sardonic parody to the tune of the popular song "Pretty Baby."  The song refers to the practice of the military services discharging women who became pregnant.

If you're nervous in the service
And you don't know what to do,
Have a baby, have a baby.
If you're hurried and you're worried
And you're feeling kind of blue,
Have a baby, have a baby.
If you're tired of regimentation
And you don't like your chow,
And you'd go back to civilization
If you only knew how,
I can help you, pretty Wavie, 
If you'd like to leave the Navy;
Just have a pretty baby on me.
	I really mean it!
	Just a pretty baby on me.

	In an open letter dated September 16, 1945, Seeger reported from Saipan that this song was supposedly compsoed by "stateside WAVES."  The masculine orientation revealed in the last lines would seem to belie that.