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Thread #71227 Message #2862952
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Mar-10 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections - recorded msgs
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: I Don't Want to Be a Soldier
Malcolm linked above to the Digital Tradition version of I Don't Want to Join the Army, which also included a tune. For some reason, the song has been removed - I'll ask Dick and Susan about that. The song (with tune) is still at the Digital Tradition mirror, Yet Another Digital Tradition
-Joe-
I DON'T WANT TO JOIN THE ARMY
I don't want to join the army
I don't want to go to war.
I would rather hang around
Picadilly's underground
A'livin off the earnings of a 'igh born lady
I don't want a bullet in me backside,
I don't want me buttocks (or arsehole) shot away.
I would rather stay in Lunnon,
Jolly, jolly Lunnon
And fornicate me bloomin' life away, Gor Blimey
Call out the Army and the Navy
Call out the rank and file.
Call out the brave Territorials
They face danger with a smile!
Call out the King's Militia
They kept England free!
Call out me brother
Me father or me mother
But for Gawd's sake don't call me.
RG