Lyr Add: Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers

Subject: Lyr Add: SISTER SUSIE'S SEWING SHIRTS FOR SOLDIERS
From: Anne Cormack
Date: 10 Mar 97 - 01:31 AM

Dick, I hope you have all your own teeth if you plan to sing this!

SISTER SUSIE'S SEWING SHIRTS FOR SOLDIERS
Words, R. P. Weston; music, Hermann E. Darewski
Melbourne: Allan & Co., c1914.

1. Sister Susie's sewing in the kitchen on a Singer.
There's miles and miles of flannel on the floor and up the stairs;
And father says it's rotten getting mixed up with the cotton,
And sitting on the needles that she leaves upon the chairs;
And should you knock at our street door, Ma whispers, "Come inside."
Then when you ask where Susie is, she says with loving pride:

CHORUS: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers.
Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows!
Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd sooner sleep in thistles,
Than the saucy, soft, short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews.

2. Piles and piles and piles of shirts she sends out to the soldiers,
But sailors won't be jealous when they see them, not at all;
And when we say her stitching will set all the soldiers itching,
She says our soldiers fight best when their back's against the wall;
And little brother Gussie, he who lisps when he says, "Yeth",
Says, "Where's the cotton gone from off my kite? Oh, I can gueth!"

3. I forgot to tell you that our sister Susie's married,
And when she isn't sewing shirts, she's sewing other things.
Then little sister Molly says, "Oh, sister's bought a dolly.
She's making all the clothes for it with pretty bows and strings."
Says Susie, "Don't be silly" as she blushes and she sighs.
Then mother smiles and whispers with a twinkle in her eyes.

Not recommended for people with a lisp - and watch out if you're in the front row of the audience!!!!
Anne

Subject: RE: Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 10 Mar 97 - 08:08 AM

Thanks Anne,

My Dad sings that but I'm sure he doesn't know all the words.

I'll send him a copy.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Mar 97 - 12:25 PM

Thanx Anne. I've heard it said that the Syndcalist-Anarchist movement of the 1930's died out when its members aged, got false teeth and couldn't pronouce it any more.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Aug 17 - 03:08 PM

You can see sheet music for this song at The Levy Collection at Johns Hopkins University. It was sung by Al Jolson.