Lyr Req: beer, beer, beer said the private

Subject: beer, beer, beer said the private
From: GUEST,Imogene
Date: 11 May 01 - 10:46 AM

Looking for song my mother (who, was a WAC, often sang). Anyone out there recognize it and/or have more lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: beer, beer, beer said the private
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 May 01 - 10:50 AM

as I already said when you asked this for the first time:

look in the database for 'Old King Cole (Coul)' and I think you'll have it.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: beer, beer, beer said the private
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 May 01 - 10:53 AM

Sorry, if my post sounds reproachful. Your request and my response were both buried in a very long thread (How many Mudcatters are teachers) to a different theme, so I think it was acutally better to repeat the request in an extra thread. Sorry again.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: beer, beer, beer said the private
From: MMario
Date: 11 May 01 - 10:55 AM

Harry belefonte did one with that line - a variation on Old King Cole - it's in the DT - I found it by searching on "beer"

or you can click here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: beer, beer, beer said the private
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 11 May 01 - 11:21 AM

We heard a Union Infantry Company marching to it on the Emmittsburg Road en route to the Gettysburg Battlefield during one of the big reenactments about 5 years ago. Although I believe that it is post Civil-War ("Farby", to use reenactor's jargon), it did make a very good, lusty marching or "cadence" song. It plays on and satirizes the military rank heirarchy, much like the WWI era "I Know Where 'E Is" Trench Song mentioned in an earlier thread.

It is common for these old marching songs to be implanted in Military Tradition and recycled over several wars. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" apparantly served well in this capacity from the ACW (1861-5) through WW II.

Did your Mother serve in WW II? God Bless her; we owe those Patriots an awesome debt of gratitude, and they are "crossing over Jordan" now at a rate seemingly comparable to that which they crossed over the Atlantic & Pacific when beseiged Freedom called them.