| Lyrics: | THIS GREAT WAR
I just received a telegram
From General Leonard Wood;
Says,
"Bring your gunboats up the creek
We'll do the Moros good
We're going to war, a glorious
war."
"And bring along Doctor Munson
Of whom I've heard it said,
He'll kill
more Moros with his pills
Than we can kill with lead,
In any war, you ever
saw:"
"And bring along Mr. Robards,
Oh bring him without fail,
He killed ten
thousand Moros
On the Almadeyo trail;
In that great war, that glorious war."
We had
our breakfast early,
We did not get much sleep,
When General Wood, he came on board
And made us feel like sheep,
In that great war, that glorious war.
Says he, "Good
morning, Captain,
You've used me mighty well,
Now take your damned old ferryboat
And shove right off to Hell,
We're going to war, a glorious war."
"We don't like
your marines,
They're first in every war,
They beat us to Guantanamo,
But we're
going to beat them now,
To this great war, this glorions war"
They're jealous of the
Navy
Which always leads the van,
Without our trusty gunners,
They could never land
a man,
In any war, they ever saw.
We're up at five in the mornin;
And work
till God knows when,
Breakin' rocks and haulin' dirt,
To save the army men,
In this
great war, this glorlous war.
Next time the Army wants us
To lead them far from
home,
We'll tell them to go plumb to Hell,
We've troubles of our own,
We're going to
war, a glorious war.
From The Book of Navy Songs, USNA
Note: from the Philippine
Insurrection 1899
@war @navy @bitching
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