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Oh! It's A Lovely War (from "Oh! It's A Lovely War")

Courtland, Jefferies, George Grossmith1 Jan 2000

Oh! It's A Lovely War (from "Oh! It's A Lovely War") Lyrics

Oh! It's A Lovely War - Courtland/Jefferies/George Grossmith

Up to your waist in water

Up to your eyes in slush

 

Using the kind of language

That makes the sergeants blush

 

Who wouldn't join the army

 

That's what we all enquire

Don't we pity the poor civilians

Sitting around the fire

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Who wouldn't be a soldier eh

Oh it's a shame to take the pay

 

As soon as reveille has gone

We feel just as heavy as lead

But we never get up till the sergeant

Brings our breakfast up to bed

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

What do you want with eggs and ham

When you've got plum and apple jam

 

Form fours right turn

How shall we spend the money we earn

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Who wouldn't be a soldier eh

Oh it's a shame to take the pay

 

As soon as reveille has gone

We feel just as heavy as lead

But we never get up till the sergeant

Brings our breakfast up to bed

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

What do you want with eggs and ham

When you've got plum and apple jam

 

Form fours right turn

How shall we spend the money we earn

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Come to the cook house door boys

Sniff at the lovely stew

 

Who is it says the colonel

Gets better grub than you

 

Any complaints this morning

Do we complain not we

 

What's the matter with lumps of onion

Floating around the tea

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Who wouldn't be a soldier eh

Oh it's a shame to take the pay

 

As soon as reveille has gone

We feel just as heavy as lead

But we never get up till the sergeant

Brings our breakfast up to bed

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

What do you want with eggs and ham

When you've got plum and apple jam

 

Form fours right turn

How shall we spend the money we earn

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

Who wouldn't be a soldier eh

 

Oh it's a shame to take the pay

 

As soon as reveille has gone

We feel just as heavy as lead

But we never get up till the sergeant

Brings our breakfast up to bed

 

Oh oh oh

It's a lovely war

 

What do you want with eggs and ham

When you've got plum and apple jam

 

Form fours right turn

How shall we spend the money we earn

Oh oh oh

 

It's a lovely war

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