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Lyrics for Philippinitis by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Philippinitis | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 162 | | | | Lyrics: | PHILIPPINITIS
There's a malady terrific and it's very very sad
For you can't think
of anything.
They call it Philippinitis and you have it very bad
When you can't think of
anything.
You start to write a letter and you try your best to think,
You sit for half an
hour and then overturn your ink,
Then drop your pen and paper and go out and take a
drink
For you can't thnk of anything, can you?
cho: It's so easy to forget a little
thing like a thought,
When your mind is topsy turvy and your memory is short
I'd
be a "savvy" hombre and I'd know a great lot
If I only could remember what I've quite
forgot.
O we have a civil governor; he does his very best,
But he can't think
of everythlng.
He does what he is able, General Chaffee does the rest-
For he can't think
of everything.
The Phlllppines are pacified, not tranquilized, said he;
He overlooked a
little thing as anyone mag see -
He forgot the Filipinos, and it's plain as plain can
be
That he can't think of everything - can he?
Second and Final Chorus:
It's so easy to forget a little man in brown,
When gou start to put an insurrection
down;
He'd tranquilize the Phillipines without a single shot,
If he only could
remember what he's quite forgot.
Now twenty thousand soldiers, oh, he said he thought
would do-
But he didn't think of everything.
If native troops are utilized, perhaps can
spare a few -
But he didn't think of everything.
We can occupy the Phillppines with twenty
thousand men;
He overlooked a little thing; he didn't tell us when.
He quite forgot the
date of this, the year two thousand ten -
But he can't thlnk of everything - can
he?
A Navy song of the Phillipine Insurrection of 1898-1890;
gunboats were co-opted
by the Army to help with the
"Pacification" of this newly-acquired possession. RG
From The
Book of Navy Songs, USNA
@war @navy
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PHILPPTS
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