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05 Jan 23 - 07:45 PM (#4161447) Subject: There's a Soldier in the Grass [Tune Assembly] From: and e Several versions of this ditty. All to the bugle tune "Assembly". A version by Joe_F. Date: 17 Oct 08 - 08:56 PM
Another version by GUEST,Mrrzy-at-work. 07-Apr-00 - 12:08 PM My dad used to tell a story of the only time he was ever struck by his mom was for singing. Never heard anyone else knew this one. It would have happened in the late 20s or early 30's. There's a german in the grass Finally a version from from G. Legman's I Love You I really Do, Part 1 Page 346. He learned this at Boy Scout summer camp ca 1928. There's a nigger in the grass |
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06 Jan 23 - 08:18 AM (#4161490) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: cnd When All the World Was Young by Ferrol Sams was written in 1991 but set in WWII and used a version of the song similar to Mrrzy's on p. 156. |
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07 Jan 23 - 05:39 PM (#4161659) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: Joe_F That should be "a version *from* [not *by*] Joe_F". I do not want to claim authorship. %^) |
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22 May 23 - 07:25 AM (#4172808) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: and e All you soldiers in the grass, Text 3009, pg 161, in the Gordon "Inferno" Collection. Available online here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n161/mode/2up?q=assembly |
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22 May 23 - 07:26 AM (#4172809) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: and e The texts of the Inferno date from ca 1917 to ca 1927. |
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07 Jun 23 - 09:28 PM (#4174094) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: and e BUGLE CALLS Pg 267, The Canfield Collection, [c1927]. See online here: https://archive.org/details/1926canfieldcollection/page/7/mode/2up |
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07 Oct 23 - 11:48 AM (#4183186) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: GUEST What I learned in grade school - 1960s. There's a Brownie in the grass With a bullet up her ass Take it out Take it out Like a good Boy Scout |
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07 Oct 23 - 11:48 AM (#4189417) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: GUEST What I learned in grade school - 1960s. There's a Brownie in the grass With a bullet up her ass Take it out Take it out Like a good Boy Scout |
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10 Oct 23 - 07:07 PM (#4189418) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: Severn There's a soldier in the grass With a bullet up his ass. Take it out, take it out like a good girl scout It was always a Girl Scout in my home area (Wash. DC) |
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10 Oct 23 - 07:07 PM (#4183376) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: Severn There's a soldier in the grass With a bullet up his ass. Take it out, take it out like a good girl scout It was always a Girl Scout in my home area (Wash. DC) |
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05 Nov 23 - 08:37 PM (#4185336) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: GUEST,Robin Our elementary school over ten years ago had a different version, it either went like this: There's a snake in the grass with a bullet up its ass stick it in, stick it out you are out Or like this: There's a snake in the grass with a bullet up its ass stick it in, stick it out you are sent to Mexico |
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05 Nov 23 - 08:37 PM (#4191865) Subject: RE: Origins: There's a Soldier in the Grass From: GUEST,Robin Our elementary school over ten years ago had a different version, it either went like this: There's a snake in the grass with a bullet up its ass stick it in, stick it out you are out Or like this: There's a snake in the grass with a bullet up its ass stick it in, stick it out you are sent to Mexico |