Lyr Req: Bugle Calls

Subject: Bugle Calls
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 09:08 AM

Traditonally, buglers tend to memorise sets of (sometimes very odd) lyrics as an aid to remembering bugle calls, for example, from the British Army of the Great War period (and through the 20th Century):

THE ROUSE

Get out of bed, get out of bed,
You lazy bastards
Get out of bed, get out of bed,
You lazy bastards
I feel sorry for you....I do!"

or

SICK CALL

Sixty four, Ninety four,
He'll never go sick no more
The poor bugger's dead


I wondered if anyone out there had any others.

If anyone can oblige, it would help if the nationality, arm of service (and, if necessary the period) were mentioned.

Thanks

Walrus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 09:33 AM

"Come to the cookhouse door boys come to the cookhouse door"(Bristish Army) is the only one Ican remember

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 11:25 AM

US--WWII
Time to get up, time to get up
Time to get up in the morning.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 06:56 PM

I was never in the army, but in my childhood in the U.S. during World War II we learned

Reveille:
You gotta get up, you gotta get up,
You gotta get up in the morning.
But at West Point, according to Mark Twain, the traditional words were "You can't get 'em up" etc.

Mess call:
Come and get your beans, boys,
Come and get your beans.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: toadfrog
Date: 15 Mar 02 - 11:42 PM

My misspent youth on Army bases, and 3 years' service, provides following examples

Mess Call (aka "Soupie):

Soupie, soupie, soupie, without a single bean.
Soupie, soupie, soupie, been pounded through a screen
Soupie, soupie, soupie, without a single bean.

You can't get'em up,
You can't get'em up,

Reville

You can't get'em up, in the morning,You can't get'em up,
You can't get'em up,
You can't get'em up,at all.

The dirty sons of bitches!
They won't put on their britches!
You can't get'em up,
You can't get'em up,
You can't get'em up at all!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 08:39 AM

Refresh for more about bugles.

A proper musical instrument - or not?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Cool Beans
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 08:58 AM

There's a soldier in the grass.
With a bullet up his ass.
Take it out, take it out
Like a good girl scout.

Tune: Don't know the proper name but it's the summons to assemble.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:32 AM

There's more to "mess call," but I can't remember it. "Beefy, Beefy, Beefy, - - ever seen" comes to mind, with a number of other comestibles. Can anybody remember?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:38 AM

The RAF was too civilised to use Bugle Calls , apart from The Last Post , of course !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:40 AM

In a previous thread on bugle calls it was "discovered" that there are immense differences in the calls used by various countries and even by different services (and at different times) within a single country.

It's easy for people to talk about a call in great detail before discovering that they're discussing two (or more) quite different "tunes" and lyrics from various odd ends of the world and from different times.

Be cautious ... about assuming ... that you know what someone else thinks you believe you're talking about here.

But do carry on.

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:51 AM

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: NH Dave
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 04:08 PM

I believe that among UK band members the theme to, The Bridge on the River Kwai is unanimously known as, Ballocks and the Same to You. Taps, the US last bugle call of the day has several diferent sets of lyrics set to it, "Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh." being one of the most common.

Some British Bugle Calls are available here, while most of the US Army Bugle Calls can be found here. Not to be outdone, the US Air Force Ceremonial Music and Bugle Calls has a number of marches and the AF Band's version of the standard US Bugle Calls.

Dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Lighter
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM

I may have posted this on a different thread. The old "Rogue's March" in the U.S. Army was

Poor old soldier ! Poor old soldier !
He'll be tarred and feathered and sent to hell,
Because he would not soldier well.

Not a bugle call, but some kind of brief "march" from World War I or earlier,

You're in the army now !
You're not behind the plow !
You son of a bitch,
You'll never get rich !
You're in the army now !

It must have a genuine title, but I don't know what it is. That's the only verse I've ever heard.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Lighter
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:27 PM

Just remembered, Joe.

Mess call:

Soupy, soupy, soupy,
Without a single bean.
Porky, porky, porky,
Without a streak of lean.
Coffee, coffee, coffe,
Weakest ever seen.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 08:06 PM

"You're In the Army Now" was, IIRC¹, the title song for a movie of the same title ca. mid 1940s(?). Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye I believe were the stars. (Can't remember who the girls were, but of course they were cute.)

I recall one of the neighbors having sheet music with cast pictures on the front.

I can't say whether it was written for the movie or was adapted from an earlier song.

¹ At least I think I remember but it was of course a few years ago and I was quite young.

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 01:28 AM

That's it, Lighter! Thanks a lot.
-Joe-