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Thread #8395   Message #4221253
Posted By: Jack Horntip
19-Apr-25 - 10:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Salvation Army/Throw a Nickel on the Drum
Subject: RE: Origins: Salvation Army/Throw a Nickel on the Drum
Salvation Army Song

If you want to go to heaven when you die, when you die
If you want to go to heaven when you die, when you die
Just grab a little bonnet with Salvation Army on it.
If you want to go to heaven when you die.

Come and join us
Come and join us
Come and join our happy band!
Come and join us
Come and join us
Come and join our happy band!

Will you please put a penny on the old tin drum
Will you please put a penny on the old tin drum
We only wantta panna to buy enough for Anna
If you want to go to heaven when you die.

Posted May 22, 2009 to Youtube. Sung by an octogenarian. The tune
used is the same used for the WWI song "If You Want the Old Battalion
We Know Where They Are (Barbed Wire)".


Listen online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4saJQylzgCs