dinki di wwii
dinki di wwii
a digger in london on 7 days leave when a fucking great mp said 'pardon me, please there's mud on your tunic and blood on your sleeve, I'll just have to cancel your 7 days leave.
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dinki- di, dinki -di I'm a dinki-di digger who never tells lies.
(a pommie redcap with 3 stripes on his sleeve said to 2 diggers 'now pardon me please- there's mud on your tunic,and blood on your brass;
 I'll just have to cancel your 7 day pass.
) (wwii)
the diggers just glared with a murderous glance 'we are just back from the balls up in france where the whizz bangs are flying and comforts are few, and brave men a r dying for bastards like you.
we' re shelled on the left and we' re shelled on the right, we' re shelled in the day and we' re shelled in the night, if something don't happen, and that pretty soon, there' ll be nobody left in the bloody platoon.
when mothers have babies they have them with ease, when whores have abortions they call them m.
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 syou say as you like and you do as you please, you' re all fucking bastards, you fucking m.
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whe this war is over and we' re out of here we' ll see them in sydney town beggin for beer;
 they' 'ask for a dina to buy a small glass, but all that they' ll get is a kick in the ass
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this is a compilation of versions from brad tate, and darky edwards, with the last verse recovered from a tape brad tate made of alex hood in 1970.
 it is unknown where, or from whom, alex collected the last verse.
 duuring wwii dinki-di seems to have transformed into 2 separate songs, dinki-di, and army ( bloody buna, pucka punyal, saigon, bien hoa, etc), directed against and about the depredations and incompetency in hq staff, nad is sung by officers in the field as well as enlisted personnel--my collection, jherb fenn, in vietnam vets folklore collection jim hatch, saul broudy, and others) hq.
 in some of the american versions that they learned from an australian woman in vietnam the army hq song has adopted the chorus of dinki-di, and thuus some of the american versions of this song go back to the australian wwi version! while other, american, and all australian versions from wwii on keep the songs as 2 different identities.