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Lyr Add: Parody of Tarpaulin Jacket

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I'VE BEEN A GAY ROVIN' YOUNG FELLOW
TARPAULIN JACKET
THE DYING AIRMAN


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SINSULL 11 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM
Jeri 11 Jul 01 - 06:39 PM
Noreen 11 Jul 01 - 05:30 PM
SINSULL 11 Jul 01 - 04:58 PM
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of Tarpaulin Jacket
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM

No connection. I was surfing the net and came across the story. I found it amusing that soldiers and sailors from the same country, bleeding in the same war clung to their dislike/jealousy of one another. The General complaining about the housekeeping amid the chaos of war struck me as funny and the men's song as even funnier.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of Tarpaulin Jacket
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 06:39 PM

Poem written by A.P. Herbert per the article SINSULL linked to.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Parody of Tarpaulin Jacket
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 05:30 PM

Interesting, Sinsull. Do you have a connection with those involved?

One point though, it's not a parody of Tarpaulin Jacket, it merely uses the same tune.

Noreen


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Subject: Parody of Tarpaulin Jacket
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:58 PM

For an explanation worth the read, go here:
clickhere

The General inspecting the trenches
exclaimed with a horrified shout,
"I refuse to command a Division
Which leaves its excreta about."

And certain responsible critics
Made haste to reply to his words
Observing that his Staff advisers
Consisted entirely of turds.

But nobody took any notice
No one was prepared to refute,
That the presence of shit was congenial
Compared with the presence of Shute.

For shit may be shot at odd corners
And paper supplied there to suit,
But a shit would be shot without mourners
If somebody shot that shit Shute.


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