The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108622   Message #4221290
Posted By: Jack Horntip
20-Apr-25 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Away, Away with Rum, by Gum
Subject: RE: Origin: Away, Away with Rum, by Gum
And that other song to the nameless air reputed to have
been sung by Uncle Sam's tars on their cruise around the
world:
Away, away with fife and drum !
Here we come, here we come !
We're looking for something to put on the fritz,
The piratical class of nineteen six.

1911. History of the Class of 1906. Yale College. Volume II.   Reunion of the 1906 class.


See here: https://books.google.com/books?id=0nCFZEABzW0C