"The Shelby Beacon" of Ellwood, Pa. (Apr. 27, 1917) prints the following:

A Marching Verse for Co. A, Shelby Volunteers

There is Captain Hicks of Company A,
And his Lieutenants two;
They will make you march
As stiff as starch
Before they're done with you.
The drums will roll,
Upon me soul,
And this is the way you'll go,
Forty miles a day
On beans and hay
In the regular army, oh.