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Lyr Req: Bugle Calls

15 Mar 02 - 09:08 AM (#669761)
Subject: Bugle Calls
From: The Walrus at work

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


15 Mar 02 - 09:33 AM (#669774)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: GUEST,greg stephens

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


15 Mar 02 - 11:25 AM (#669823)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Sorcha

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


15 Mar 02 - 06:56 PM (#669879)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe_F

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.


15 Mar 02 - 11:42 PM (#670001)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: toadfrog

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!


16 Oct 06 - 08:39 AM (#1860203)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: The Shambles

Refresh for more about bugles.

A proper musical instrument - or not?


16 Oct 06 - 08:58 AM (#1860219)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Cool Beans

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.


16 Oct 06 - 11:32 AM (#1860381)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe Offer

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-


16 Oct 06 - 11:38 AM (#1860389)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Leadfingers

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


16 Oct 06 - 11:40 AM (#1860391)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: JohnInKansas

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


16 Oct 06 - 11:51 AM (#1860400)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: The Shambles

Thank you.


16 Oct 06 - 04:08 PM (#1860647)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: NH Dave

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


16 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM (#1860807)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Lighter

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.


16 Oct 06 - 07:27 PM (#1860833)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Lighter

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.


16 Oct 06 - 08:06 PM (#1860862)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: JohnInKansas

"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


17 Oct 06 - 01:28 AM (#1861015)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bugle Calls
From: Joe Offer

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