ARMY SONG!

by Macheath Thursday, Sep. 27, 2001 at 12:40 AM

ARMY SONG From Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera." (Die Dreigroshenoper) Written and staged in Germany, 1928.

ARMY SONG!...
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Johnny joined up and Jimmy was there

and George got a Sargent's rating

Don't give your right name, the Army don't care..

... and the life is so fascinating.

Let's all go barmy, live off the Army

See the world we never saw

If we get feeling down

We wander into town...

... and if the population

should greet us with indignation

WE'LL CHOP 'EM TO BITS

because we like our hamburgers raw!

Johnny drank up till his gut caved in

... and Jimmy did not drink tea

And George replied with a right to the chin

for the Army is just a picnic

Let's all go barmy, live off the Army

See the world we never saw

If we get feeling down

We wander into town...

... and if the population

should greet us with indignation

WE'LL CHOP 'EM TO BITS

because we like our hamburgers raw!

Johnny is missing and Jimmy is DEAD

... and George went crazy shooting

but blood is blood and red is red

AND THE ARMY IS STILL RECRUITING!

Original: ARMY SONG!