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Felipa Salvation Army comic song (56* d) RE: Salvation Army comic song 06 Sep 18


filling in the blanks on Murray's Away Away with Rum by Gum contribution of July 1998
ah, I see a couple of other people have already finished the first verse

We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band,
On the right side of temperance we now take our stand;
We don't use tobacco because we do think
That the people who use it are likely to drink

but no-one has completed the backrub verse, a favourite of mine:

The way I know it is:
We don't allow backrubs, we think them a crime
We will always condemn them in song and in rhyme
An alcohol backrub is worse than straight gin
When you think of the liquor absorbed through your skin.

Incidentally, while I have come across the chorus which states "Away, Away, with rum, by gum" is "the song of the Salvation Army"; the way I learned it/sing it is "the song of the Temperance Union."


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