They Start Into Battle Again 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Aug 2008
2008

Alphonse Dupree with seven kids,
and Lena Krause with four,
got married and lived happily,
but ever since the war,
it makes him yell
to hear her tell
that Germany will win,
so every night they start to fight
and all their kids butt in.

Oh! there's Herman
and he stands up for his mother
like a German,
he starts fighting
with his brother,
and when the Russian butler butts in
the Prussian cook
butts him on the chin,
then the father well!
The old man doesn't bother
if his wifey should complain,
but if the French kids lose.
Oh! how he spanks them,
if the Germans win,
Mother she thanks them,
then the whole caboodle
sing the Yankee Doodle
and they start in to battle again.

Oh! there's Herman
and he stands up for his mother
like a German,
he starts fighting
with his brother,
and when the Russian butler butts in
the Prussian cook
butts him on the chin,
then the father well!
The old man doesn't bother
if his wifey should complain,
but if the French kids lose.
Oh! how he spanks them,
if the Germans win,
Mother she thanks them,
then the whole caboodle
sing the Yankee Doodle
and they start in to battle again.

They broke 'most ev'ry piece of furniture
around the place,
and when the landlord called for rent,
they tried to break his face,
he told the Irish janitor who
started in to brawl,
just pay me Union wages,
I'll go in and lick them all.

Oh! there's Herman
and he stands up for his mother
like a German,
he starts fighting
with his brother,
and when the Russian butler butts in
the Prussian cook
butts him on the chin,
then the father well!
The old man doesn't bother
if his wifey should complain,
but if the French kids lose.
Oh! how he spanks them,
if the Germans win,
Mother she thanks them,
then the whole caboodle
sing the Yankee Doodle
and they start in to battle again.

Oh! there's Herman
and he stands up for his mother
like a German,
he starts fighting
with his brother,
and when the Russian butler butts in
the Prussian cook
butts him on the chin,
then the father well!
The old man doesn't bother
if his wifey should complain,
but if the French kids lose.
Oh! how he spanks them,
if the Germans win,
Mother she thanks them,
then the whole caboodle
sing the Yankee Doodle
and they start in to battle again.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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They Start Into Battle Again 1914
by Edgar Leslie & Lew Brown
© MCMXIV by Kalmar & Puck Music Co.Inc.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 12.03
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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