THE SONG OF THE MARINES (WE'RE SHOVIN' RIGHT OFF AGAIN)

Written for: The Singing Marine (1937)
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1937
Original publisher: Remick Music Corp.

Verse:

There's gotta be pork, there's gotta be beans,
In order to fill up and fatten the fightin' Marines,
The mighty Marines,
We carry all our vitamins inside a little can,
For corned beef is a delicacy in China or Japan;
And so, we're ready to go, wherever we go,
We know that we go prepared
To fight the foe or see that we keep 'em scared,
On land we always land a bit of femininity,
And then we hear the bugle blow,
And where the heck are we?

Chorus:

Over the sea let's go, men!
We're shovin' right off,
We're shovin' right off again;
Nobody knows where or when,
We're shovin' right off,
We're shovin' right off again.
It may be Shanghai,
Farewell and goodbye;
Sally and Sue, don't be blue;
We'll just be gone for years and years and then,
We're shovin' right off for home again!

(From: HERE, with MIDI)

It's on Songs Of The U.S. Armed Forces sung by The Sun Harbor Men's Chorus.

~Masato