Camouflage 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 01 Aug 2005

This war has brought us trouble,
and lots of humor too,
for life is just a bubble,
I'll prove that fact to you;
our friends abroad have coined a word
that probably we've never heard,
it sounds so funny and absurd,
it surely is a bird.
Oh, Dan, Oh, Dan,
you dictionary man.

Camouflage, Camouflage,
that's the latest dodge,
Camouflage, Camouflage,
it's not a cheese or lodge,
we'll say a Yankee trench is here,
the artist paints a keg of beer,
that's bound to bring the Germans near
That's Camouflage.

Camouflage, Camouflage,
that's the latest dodge,
Camouflage, Camouflage,
it's not a cheese or lodge,
You buy a Ford, that's secondhand,
you paint it red,
it looks so grand,
and near a "Stutz" you let it stand,
that's Camouflage.

This war has brought us trouble,
and lots of humor too,
for life is just a bubble,
I'll prove that fact to you;
our friends abroad have coined a word
that probably we've never heard,
it sounds so funny and absurd,
it surely is a bird.
Oh, Dan, Oh, Dan,
you dictionary man.

Camouflage, Camouflage,
that's the latest dodge,
Camouflage, Camouflage,
it's not a cheese or lodge,
Now Missus Cohen is fiftysix,
with all young boys she likes to mix,
she dyes her hair and paints her cheeks
that's Camouflage.

Camouflage, Camouflage,
that's the latest dodge,
Camouflage, Camouflage,
it's not a cheese or lodge,
Now La Follette he talks too much,
to me he's funny as a crutch,
they say he got himself in dutch
with Camouflage.

Soft karaoke
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Camouflage 1917
By L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatol Friedland
Dedicated to Billy Scharton, Patricia Farms, Mass.
© 1917 by Jos. W. Stern & Co., 102-104 W. 38th St., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 01 August 2005 at 00.52
in association with Doug Grierson
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