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Thread #48962   Message #2986245
Posted By: frogprince
13-Sep-10 - 10:35 PM
Thread Name: Songs You Learned in the Service?
Subject: RE: Songs You Learned in the Service?
For all I heard of the Navy having a singing tradition, I encountered very little of it in a four year hitch. On a couple of occasions some of us sat around throwing in verses for "Hey Lottie Lottie". I halfway learned a profoundly raunchy takeoff on "Didn't He Ramble" from an Oscar Brand Record:

We landed on Guam Island, one bright and sunny morn,
And there we met the girl we knew as Miss VD of Guam.

It goes downhill fast from there. I first heard it just before getting orders to eighteen months stationed on Guam. Fortunately or unfortunately, the song says the girl was dead by then.