For Mac, from the WWI songs thread:

Mac, you can read the song and some history about it here and here.

(both versions to the tune of Red Wine, a hit song of 1907)

The following version was published in 1916 by B. Feldman.

You've sung of the boys in blue,
You've sung of their girls so true,
You've marched to the strain of the well-known refrain
Of "Who's Your Lady Friend?" and "Tipperary" too,
Our Tommies so brave and strong
Have sung ev'ry kind of song
But what is the lay they're singing today
As they go marching along?

Refrain:
When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin
His shoes are cracking, for want of blacking
And his little baggy trousers they want mending
Before we send him to the Dardanelles.

Some day there will come a time
To "Wind up the Watch on the Rhine",
And Tommy and Jack will come marching back
And take a cup for the sake of "Auld Lang Syne".
But ere that happy day
The Germans have got to pay,
When we march in to capture Berlin
We will sing this little lay.

Refrain

A variant of the refrain goes:
When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin
His boots are cracking, for want of blacking
And the bottoms of his shoes they won't need mending
Before they send him to the Dardanelles.



Oldham Tinkers
Refrain:
The moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin
His boots are crackin’ for want of blackin‘
And his owd fusty coat is wanting mending
Until they send him to the Dardenelles

Charlie Chaplin had no sense
He bought a flute for 18 pence
But the only tune that he could play
Was ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin meek and mild
Stole a sausage from a child
But when the child began to cry
Charlie socked him in the eye

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin went to France
To teach the ladies how to dance
First you heel, and then you toe
Lift your skirts and up you go

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin Chuck-Chuck-Chuck
Went to bed with three white ducks
One died and Charlie cried
Charlie Chaplin Chuck-Chuck-Chuck

Refrain