The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-27
SOLDIERS WRITE
WORDS TO CALLS
All Bugle Music Has Verses
in Army Life and Men
Sing Them.
MEANING OF IT'S OWN
Trumpet Rules Life in Camps
From Dawn Until Time to
Retire at Night.

Camp Doniphan, Okla.-Therc are
bugle calls for most every movement
a soldier must make in the army. He is
awakened in the morning by the bugle,
called to assembly by the bugle. called
to work by it, called to sick report by
1t, his days work is ended by it, and
finally he Is put to bed by 1t.
And then, when his ]ife's work is
complete and he is being lowered into
his resting place in little pine box,
the bugle plays the last call, the most
beantiful OF all calls, the same call
that every night sings the men to sleep
in their tents. taps.
Has Meaning Of It, Own.
Every company must have it's
buglers or trumpeters, whichever the
case may be, for It Is provided by tho
army regulations. Nothing is said
about any words to the calls but from
time immemorial every call has its
own words and there are as many vari-
atoms to the parodies as there are
lights on Twelfth street.
The reveille call comes first In the
morning when the men are all sup
posed to get mp. Probably the oldest
verse net to tho revieile tune follows:
can't get 'em up. can't get 'sm up,
/ can't get 'em up in the morning:
I can't get 'em up, | can't get 'em
Up, can't get EN- UP at all.
Corp'rals worse than the privates:
Sergeants worse than the corporals
Lieutenants worse than the SER
geants,
And the captains worst Of all.
Then the chorus comes in strong
with II can't get 'em UP, l can't get
'em UP. etc"
The Most Popular Of All.
standard verse, although there are
many variations. This Is one Of the
most popular calls in the army. and
seldom. II ever, must be repeated. The
men never seem to have much trouble
hearing mess call as they do the 9TH
er calls. The verse follows:
Soup-y, soup-y, soup.
Without single bean;
Pork-y, pork-y, pork,
Without streak Of lean,
Coffee. coffee. coffee,
Without any cream.
Cor the weakest ever seem.
Means Much to Sick Soldier.
Sick call is just as adapted to army
life as the other calls are, for sugar
coated pills and quininc are used ex-
tensively by the needles. Sick call fol-
lows
Come and get your quinine come and
get your pills,
o, come and get your quinine, come
and get your pills.
There isn't very much to the sick
call, but It means a lot to the SOL
der who has spent Il bad night lying
awake in his tent waiting for 1t to
sound in the morning.
The stable call which sounds when
it Is time to feed and water the horses
and mules has Il little more poetry and
rhythm in II. The words follow:
Come all who are able, and so to the
stable,
And water your horses and give cin
some corn;
For If you don't do it, the colonel will
know it,
And then you will rue it. sure as
you're born.
The Mast Beautiful Call.
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ono that n,,,s ~ ,,,a,i,,, ss,stas
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over. has moro versions written to i,
than any other call. Taps Is the mos,
beautiful call of all and it's effect is
soothing to the tired and weary body
OF the soldier as lac lies in his bunk
woping sleep. Two of the versions
are:
r,oaos a., mimi,
co.,h ~ aav. g. d NM j
come,h the night,
And a star
Lcadeth all.
speedeth all
To their rest.
80 .
SOU night
Mus' ulou go
Wnen the day
And the night
Leave me so?
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