Poppy - It's The Old Army Game 1924

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 8 Dec 2011
2011

Now time immortalizes
The idioms that please;
In new and strange disguises
We meet the same old wheeze.
The shapely form and figure
Of ladies may entrall,
Their shapelyness
Will quite impress
But really after all,

It's the old army game
surviving and thriving,
The soldier lad sticks a pad
'Neath a tunic bright.
But the ladies with ambition
They just change the pad's position;
It's the old army game,
But it's quite all right!

It's the old army game
surviving and thriving,
The soldier lad sticks a pad
'Neath a tunic bright.
Tho' the figure may look ripping
Oh it's awkward when it's slipping,
it's the old army game
But it's quite all right!

The city clerk imposing
with income thirty bob
Will centre on disclosing
The grandeur of his job.
His sweetheart he impresses
When holidays are due,
He'll never cease
Discussing Nice,
But strictly entre nous.

It's the old army game,
surviving and thriving,
He dries her eye
Bids goodbye,
Promises to write.
Then he kisses her
in Dulwich,
Talks of France,
But stays in Woolwich;
It's the old army game,
But it's quite all right!

It's the old army game,
surviving and thriving,
He dries her eye
Bids goodbye,
Promises to write.
Then he comes back
brown and bonny
Shouting: "Wee, wee, no compronny;"
It's the old army game,
But it's quite all right!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Poppy - It's The Old Army Game 1924
by William Hargreaves
© MCMXXIV by Chappell & Co.Ltd.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 8 December 2011 at 15.40
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
for Todd Robbins
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Wishing my son, William, a Very Happy 37th Birthday
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