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Thread #92616   Message #3582379
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
07-Dec-13 - 01:03 PM
Thread Name: Songs about World War I
Subject: RE: Songs about World War I
Lyr. Add: THE LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF

Tune: "Tipperary"

It took a long time to get it hairy,
'Twas a long time to grow;
Took a long time to get it hairy,
For the toothbrush hairs to show.
Good-bye, Charlie Chaplin,
Farewell, tufts of hair;
'Twas a long, long time to get it hairy,
But now my lip's quite bare.

Popular about the time the War Office (GB) rescinded the decision re moustaches.

F. T. Nettleingham, "Tommy's Tunes, 1917, p. 23.