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Thread #120720   Message #2628324
Posted By: Charley Noble
10-May-09 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' ...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mama don't care for gin (handy brandy
The range of rhymes can also be found in the old army drinking song "The Quartermaster's Corps" as remembered from Oscar Brand's singing:

It's beer, beer, beer, which makes us feel so queer,
In the Corps, in the Corps;
It's beer, beer, beer, which makes us feel so queer,
In the Quartermaster's Corps!

Chorus:

My eyes are dim, I cannot see,
I have not brought my specs with me!


It's whiskey, whiskey, whiskey...Etc.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble