Evening star., 1943-10-02


alton huts and sing. ---
| This worried me at first. don't
pretend to know the words or even
the tunes of World War II songs such
as Johnny Doughboy Came Here
to Talk for. Joe" and Don't Sit
Under the Wing and a Prayer With
Any one Else for Me" AS a matterr
Of fact, these titles may even be
wrong, so unsure am I about ths
war songs Of today. At first I
! thought Of converting my fortune
into nickels and hanging around
/ Juke boxes so that when I reached
/ Camp Blanding and some Of my
buddies said, Let's Sing Praise the
/ Lord and Pass the Apple Tree I
could join right in with the care
/ less abandon OF one who knows boagl
words and music.
Learned Hard Way. --
/ Then I got to thinking. Why?
Why should I go TO all that effort
when I already know so many good
war songs. I'm not at all sure that
| the songs I know aren't just as
/ good or better than the ones I
mentioned above. I didn't leatn
! them from juke boxes or from the
radio. l learned them the hard
way. First I would hear them in
the morning when, as a little boy.
I sold newspapers before school ct
! Camp Jackson in Columbia, S. c.
The soldiers would be singing them
and then when I got home my
sisters would be pounding out the
/ same tunes on the piano. So, the
war music I know I really know,
! and I'm going to stick with it.
When I march I am going to
| sing Madelon.' When I get under
the sohwer may sing "K-k-k-katy'
or "Good-by Broadway. Hello
France" or Send Me Away With
a Smile" or There's Rose That
Grows in No Mans Land" or IF He
Can Fight Like He Can Love" or
"A Baby's Prayer at Twilight"
If it is the custom in the Army
to sing while picking up cigarette
butts, digging bitches. or marching
to chow, then I shall raise my voice
again. You'd have to go long way
to find tune more inspiring than
/ "Good-by, Nav Good-by. Paw;
Good-by. Mule with the Old Hes
! Haw" And, for pure chatchiness.
what more could soldier ask than
to have the man marching along
side him sing How're You Gonna
Keep En- Down on the Farm After
! They've Seen Paree"?
May Puzzle the BOYS.
| OF course, some of my songs are
likely to confuse the youngsters in
my company. They'll undoubtedly
wonder why I have it in so for
| Kaiser Bill and the Hindenburg
Line. In several of my songs I as
/ sure the listeners that I will bring
the Kaiser back for a souvenir and
in addition Will hang my wash on
. the Hindenburg Line And some Of
the youngsters may ask me if
haven't caught on to the fact that
/ Gems. Marshall, Eisenhower and
/ Macarthur, and not Gen. Pershing,
/ are in charge today.
When night falls and the sand
man II hear he wears hobnailed
boots and blows a whistle in tha
Army creeps round the barracks.
I will put myself to sleep by singS
ing to myself such songs as M
Belgian Rose Till We Meet
Again" Roses Are Blooming In
Picardy," Keep the Home FEes
Burning There's a Long, l.ona
Trail A-winding," and Sweet lttI1
Buttercup" -
And, when the bugler wakes me
in the morning I will bounce front
beneath the satin comforter of NV,
feather bed and start singing Good
Morning, Mr.. zip-zip-zip, With Your
Hair Cut Just as Short as, Your
Hair Cut Just as Short as. Your.
Hair Cut Just as Short as Mine"
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