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19 Jun 06 - 02:05 PM (#1763851) Subject: Lyrics to Revillie From: Slag I have been searching the web this AM for the lyrics to the familiar bugle call of "Revillie" and haven't found musch information. When I was a child in the 50's I learned these lyrics but I could not tell you whether they were original or some joker's improv: I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up in the morning. I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up all day. Get up you lazy monkeys, Get out of your lazy bunk-ies I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up to-day! |
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19 Jun 06 - 02:15 PM (#1763862) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Revillie From: The Borchester Echo Reveille MIDI, notation and background. No Lyrics. |
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19 Jun 06 - 04:42 PM (#1763986) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Revillie From: Keith A of Hertford British Reveille Charley Charley get up and wash yourself, Charley Charley get out of bed. The sergeant is waiting with a nice cup of tea, Charley Charley get out of bed. |
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19 Jun 06 - 04:51 PM (#1763989) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Reveille From: Genie Here are the ones I know: I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up in the morning. The corporal's worse than privates, The sergeant's worse than corporals, Lieutenant's worse than sergeants, And the captain's the worst of all! |
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19 Jun 06 - 10:38 PM (#1764237) Subject: RE: Lyrics to Revillie From: JohnInKansas countess richard's link is to a couple of Brit bugle calls, if I read the somewhat confused description there correctly. These are not the same tunes as US calls, including the US Reveille that seems to fit the lyrics being tossed about. The .gif notation files certainly don't match anything I recall hearing in the US Army. It's unlikely that a lyric will be officially associated with any "Call." That's certainly the case with the few US Bugle Calls I managed to hear often enough to "sort of" distinguish. In fact, the hardcore "ironpants" traditionalists often consider it "disrespectful" to associate lyrics with them - which is one reason it's so much fun for the troops to do so, and perhaps why there are so many versions. Note too that the bugle is frequently used with paramilitary organizations like the Boy Scouts, and the "battlefield and barracks" lyrics seldom would be appropriate for such tender young minds, hence an additional reason for variants. John |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:25 PM (#2508947) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: GUEST,Amn szakacsy well my dad, who's commited 30 years of service to the marine crops, used to sing me this version of reveille it's time to get up, it's time to get up it's time to get up in the morning it's time to get up, it's time to get up it's time to get up today the sun is brightly shining, it's early in the morning. the sun is brightly shining, its time to get up today. |
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05 Dec 08 - 04:59 PM (#2508982) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: Lighter The lyrics Genie posted seem to have been known in the American Civil War. |
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05 Dec 08 - 05:27 PM (#2509010) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: artbrooks I remember Genie's as very close to something I heard when I was first in the US Army, back in the mid-1960s. |
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06 Dec 08 - 03:19 AM (#2509197) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: Dave Hanson When I served in HM Forces, the only thing we said on hearing reveille was " shut that f***ing noise up. eric |
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06 Dec 08 - 08:54 AM (#2509296) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: Genie Those were probably the original ones, eric. LOL |
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24 May 13 - 06:46 PM (#3518972) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: GUEST,Linda Slag, I remember in the 50's, my father,retired navy, teaching me the same words as yours to reveille. I remember get up you lazy (memory fails me here) but something similar to what you remember. |
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24 May 13 - 07:00 PM (#3518976) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: Q (Frank Staplin) Reveille is sounded; there are no official words (U. S.). |
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24 May 13 - 09:07 PM (#3519004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: GUEST Only officers think that. |
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26 Oct 17 - 10:01 AM (#3884787) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reveille From: GUEST,Bill Gray A morning radio guy in Phila used to start his show singing these lyrics It's time to get up It's time to get up It's time to get up this morning! It's time to get up, it's time to get up, it's time to get up this morn'. Don't be a lazy Don't be a lazy Don't be a lazy bo-ones. Don' be a lazy Don't be a lazy Don't be a lazy bones. A lazy, lazy bones. My son hated to get up for school. He also hated me singing this while standing next to his bed. Two choruses were always enough. Enjoy! |