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PATRIOTIC PIECES
It's a crazy sort of music which would drive a critic mad
But it makes the evenings shorter, and it really ain't so bad,
And it often kind of "gets you" when the boys start in to play
For I've seen some homesick fellows wipe a tear or two away
To the strains of "Suwanee River" and "My Old Kentucky Home,"
As they float in wistful minors from a fine-tooth comb.
When this cruel war is over—and I hope I'll last it through
And we beat the German army—as we all intend to do,
When the slaughtering is finished and the final fight we win,
And with flags and pennons flying we go marching through Berlin,
I would like to tramp in triumph past the kaiser's palace dome,
Playing "Stars and Stripes Forever!" on a fine-tooth comb!
