Tell That To The Marines 1918 Al Jolson

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 08 Mar 2003

Do you remember Kaiser Bill
about a year ago,
we told your old friend Bernstorff
that he'd better pack and go;
you laughed and said America
possessed no fighting staff,
until our fighting Yankee boys
walked in and called your bluff;
That Monte Christo idea will not do,
If you think that the world belongs to you.

Tell that to the Marines,
those Devilling Hounds
who know what fighting means;
you are going to lick the world
you say you will,
if you mean Uncle Sam,
now listen Kaiser Bill;
Tell that to the Marines,
the first to fight on all the fighting scenes;
if you think you'll sink our new boats,
with your damned old Uboats,
tell that to the Marines.

Tell that to the Marines,
those Devilling Hounds
who know what fighting means;
we are going to have six million men in line,
Kaiser Bill if you don't think
they will cross the Rhine;
Tell that to the Marines,
the first to fight on all the fighting scenes;
if you think the Yanks don't whirl in,
right straight in to Berlin,
tell that to the Marines.

The line of Hindenbergh
would never break,
you made a vow,
it must be made of rubber, Bill,
the way it's bending now;
those Krupp works that you bragged about,
you'll rave of them no more,
we'll change them to the bankrupt works
when we end up this way;
tho' Kaiser Bill at warfare we are new,
if you think now
the Yankee drive is through.

Tell that to the Marines,
those Devilling Hounds
who know what fighting means;
you are going to lick the world
you say you will,
if you mean Uncle Sam,
now listen Kaiser Bill;
Tell that to the Marines,
the first to fight on all the fighting scenes;
if you think you'll sink our new boats,
with your damned old Uboats,
tell that to the Marines.

Tell that to the Marines,
those Devilling Hounds
who know what fighting means;
we are going to have six million men in line,
Kaiser Bill if you don't think
they will cross the Rhine;
Tell that to the Marines,
the first to fight on all the fighting scenes;
if you think the Yanks don't whirl in,
right straight in to Berlin,
tell that to the Marines.

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Tell That To The Marines 1918 Al Jolson
Music by Jean Schwartz and Al Jolson
Lyrics by Harold Atteridge
copyright MCMXVIII by Waterson, Berlin and Snyder Co.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Saturday 08 March 2003 at 09.34
in association with Doug Grierson
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