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

Index of First Lines 191