War-Time Tommy (voice and piano)
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- Title
- War-Time Tommy (voice and piano)
- Publication year listed
- 1916
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- Public domain eBook
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War-Time Tommy (voice and piano)
Author: Machan, Romaine
Year: 1916
[Verse 1] War broke out and Tommy Atkins thought that he’d enlist / Said he for I’m a fighter and there’s few I’ve missed / For six long months he trained and trained to bear the battle[‘]s brunt / His British blood was tingling when they sent him to the front / He dug a trench up to his neck and looked across the hill / And there with ninety million men stood big fat Kaiser Bill / Then Tommy got excited and forgot about the fight / And threw his hat high in the air and yell’d with all his might [Chorus] Its [sic] a Long way to mighty London / its a long way to go / O bring on your big black Johnson’s and your Black Marias too / for I love my home and mother / But this is the life yes Kaiser this is the life / For God save our gracious King / God bless our noble King / Oh you might as well surender [sic] now my dear old Kaiser Bill / for we’ll never let the Old Flag Fall. [Verse 2] Kaiser Bill upon the hill with ninety million strong / He fired his black marias and he punctured Tommy’s song / Poor Tommy fell and knew no more till soon a dainty Miss / with big red cross sewn on her arm she sweetly cried take this / For six long month poor Tommy held his leg upon a crutch / when nurs