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CHAMBER LYE John Haralson! John Haralson! You are a funny creature; You've given to this cruel war A new and curious feature. You'd have us think, while every man Is born to be a fighter, The women, bless the pretty dears Should save their pee for nitre. John Haralson! John Haralson! Where did you get the notion To send barrels around our street To fill them with that lotion? We thought the girls work enough With making shirts and kissing: But you put the lovely dears To patriotic pissing. John Haralson! John Haralson! Pray do invent neater And a somewhat less immodest way Of making your saltpetre. Indeed, the thing is so very odd, Gunpowder like and cranky, That when a woman lifts her skirt She shoots another Yankee!" They say there is a subtle smell That lingers in the powder; That when the smoke grows thicker, And the din of the battle louder There was found to this compound One serious objection; A soldier can not sniff it Without having an erection. "John Haralson" as recited & sung on The Earthy Side LP recorded in 1968 by members of the Norman Luboff Choir and issued in Canada in 1970 or 1971. The curious thing is the introduction and how they knew to use "Oh, Tannenbaum". From THE EARTHY SIDE: During the Civil War gunpowder was very scare in the Confederacy. And after resorting every means to makeup the shortage. The authorities hit upon the idea of urine as a source of supply. According, the following advertisement ran in the Alabama Sentinel Selma, Alabama: The ladies of Selma are respectfully requested to preserve all their chamber lye collected about their premises for the purpose of making Nitre. Wagons with barrels will be sent around to gather up the lotion. Signed, Jonathan Haralson, Agent Nitre and Mining Bureau. Confederate States Army Whereupon a Southern wag made up these verses: Tune used is Oh, Tannenbaum! @Civil @War @Confederate filename[ CHAMBLYE TUNE FILE: REDFLAG CLICK TO PLAY JM Feb07 |
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