KISS ME GOODNIGHT, SERGEANT MAJOR "The Songs and Ballads of World War II"
Ed. Martin Page, 1973, Hat-Davis, MacGibbon, London. The Index is based on first lines. This index is titles, in order of printing. Some have tunes indicated, but no scores.
1. I Don't Want to Go to War Belisha's Army 18 Waltzing into Flinders 18 I Don't Want to be a Soldier 19 No More Soldiering for Me 20 You Take the Gun 21 The Old Diehards 21 The Manchester Lads 22 From a Dying Soldier to His Love 23 Down by St Valery 23 In a German Prison 24
2. We Had a Sergeant Major Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major 26 Our Sergeant 26 He'll Be There 26 Our Windy Sergeant 27 Sod 'Em All 27 The Sarn't Major's Balls 28 The Pansy Pleat 29
3. The Nazi Gang Hitler Has Got Only One Ball 32-34 Christmas Day in the Brown House 34 My Cousins 35 THe Nazi Gang 36
4. Military Life Outside a Lunatic Asylum 38 Spike Milligan The Colonel Kicks the Major 39 Question and Answer 39 Mc Cafferty 40 Larkhill 42 Longmoor 42 Oh! Fucking Halkirk 44 Tatton Parachute Training School 45 The Marching Song of the Warwickshire Yeomanry 46 The Marching Song of the Border Regiment 46 Sick Parade 47 Reveille 48 Red Cap 49 Puckapunyal 50 Housey-Housey 51 Oh! Reykjavik! 53 At Enugu, Gold Coast 53 Black Bosoms 54 Lagos Lagoon 55 A Note on Drumming and Bugling 57
5. Land of Heat and Sweaty Socks My Little Dug-Out in the Sand 60 In a Littl Dug-Out 61 Desert Blues 61 The Song of the 258 General Transport 62 Side By Side 63 Bardia's Poem 64 Ally Sloper's Cavalry 65 The Suffragi's Wedding 68 Land of Heat and Sweaty Socks 68 Sayida Bint 69 Shari Wag El Burka 70 Alex on the Med 70 King Farouk 71 Thanks for the Memory 72 Queen Farida 72 Working in the Ordnance 74 Suda Bay 75 Libya, Christmas 1940 76 Deutscher, Deutscher 77 There's a Tin Hat on My Bed 78 Oh! Fucking Tobruk 79 Tobruk Song 80 Ali Baba Morshead and His Twenty Thousand Thieves 80 The Harasser's Song 81 Rats of Tobruk 82 The Conchie 84 The Dive Bombers' Song 87 The Party at El Alamein 88 Down by El Alamein 89 The Rifles, the Skins, and the Bold Fusiliers 90 Where the Hun Is, We Go 92 The Second A. I. F. 93
6 Patriotic Poetesses Who Said Decadent England 96 The Motherland 96 The Bootle Air-Raid Shelter Song 97 The Song of the Lagos Bar-Girls 98 [incomplete] Give Thanks in Everything 98 Tom Blamey's Boys 99 There'll Always Be an England While Australia Will Be There 100 Mother's Song 102 A Child's Prayer 102
7. Allies (We Don't Think) The Old Transvaal 104 The Battle for Fondouk Gap 104 Our Cousins 105 Gas Alert 106
8. Frightfully G. H. Q. 'A' Lighters 108 Frightfully G. H. Q. 109 Venal Vera 112 Base Wallopers 113 Horseferry Road 113 The Twats in the Ops Room 114
9. A Soldier Came on Leave One Day White Lilies 116 The Yanks Back Home 117 The Second Front Song 118 My Faithless English Rose 121 In the Moonlight 122 White Feather 123 HMS Hood 123
10 Wearing Khaki Bloomers A WAAF in a Uniforn 126 Khaki Issue 126 The Song of the ATS 127 Working the Sperries 127 Rob 'Em All 128 The Song of the HMAS Centaur 130
11. The Paras Jumping Through the Hole 132 The Man on the Flying Trapeze 132 What a Way to Die 133 Ten Little Paratroops 134 You Don't Have to Push Me, I'll Go 135 And He Ain't Going to Jump No More 136 Passing Thoughts 137 Oh Come Sit By My Side If You Love Me 138 Always Keep Your Trousers Clean 139 You're So Nice to Come Down With 142 The Merry Month of May 143 [On her leg she wears ...]
12. Flying Laying Eggs in the Sky 146 It's Foolish, But It's Fun 146 Who'll Fly a Wimpey? 147 Flying By Night and By Day 147 Flying Flying Fortresses 148 A25 Song 148
13. In the Prison Camps Waiting for Something to Happen 152 All Dressed Up 153 Feelin' Tired 154 Looking at the Moon 155 Keep Smiling 155 Keep Singing 156 When We Sail Down the River 156 Swing Song 157
14. Invasion! The D-Day Dodgers 161 Lucky Fellers 162 The Legion of the Lost 163 Men of Hardwick 163 The Rooty Song 164 The Irish Fusileers 165 The Royal Artillery 166
15. The Forgotten Armies Down by Mandelay 168 Bury Me Out in the Jungle 169 South of Meiktila 170 Bombay Bibley 170 Spud Spedding's Broken Boys 171 Tipperary (Burma) 173 Wait Till You Get to New Guinea 173 Going Round the Bend 180
16. Demob This Is My Story 182 The Gallant Ninth 182 When This War Is Over 184 The Britih Soldier's Discharge Song 185 Repat 186 Jimmy 187 The Airman's Discharge Song 187 The Australian Soldier's Discharge Song 188 Back in Circulation Again 189 The School of War 189 The Navy Pilot's Discharge Song 190