Rocky Mountain Husbandman (Diamond City, Mont.) (Dec. 2, 1880):

"That distressing couplet of the old army song:

'And when I go to the Kurnel to ax for a furlough,
He says, 'Go to bed, and soak your head!' in the regular army oh!'

"FORT BURFORD, D[akota] T[erritory], Nov. 10, '80."


"Go soak your head!" was still a common kids' expression, back in the 1950s.