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Current version of Stan Ridgway Lyrics Cannon Song (Aka Army Song) (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/stan-ridgway/cannon-song-aka-army...) Current version of the lyrics |
Version 1 of Stan Ridgway Lyrics Cannon Song (Aka Army Song) (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/stan-ridgway/cannon-song-aka-army...) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||||
| 1 | (Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein) | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Performed by Stan Ridgway and the Fowler Brothers | Performed by Stan Ridgway and the Fowler Brothers | |||||||||||||
| John was all present and Jim was all there | John was all present and Jim was all there | |||||||||||||
| And Georgie was up for promotion | And Georgie was up for promotion | |||||||||||||
| Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were | Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were | |||||||||||||
| When confronting some heathen commotion | When confronting some heathen commotion | |||||||||||||
| 1 | CHORUS | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | [Chorus:] | 1 | ||||||||||||
| The troops live under the cannon's thunder | The troops live under the cannon's thunder | |||||||||||||
| FromSind to Cooch Behar | FromSind to Cooch Behar | |||||||||||||
| Moving from place to place | Moving from place to place | |||||||||||||
| When they come face to face | When they come face to face | |||||||||||||
| With a different breed of fellow | With a different breed of fellow | |||||||||||||
| Whose skin is black or yellow | Whose skin is black or yellow | |||||||||||||
| they quick as winking chop them | they quick as winking chop them | |||||||||||||
| into beefsteak tartar | into beefsteak tartar | |||||||||||||
| Johnny found his whiskey too warm | Johnny found his whiskey too warm | |||||||||||||
| And Jimmy found the weather too balmy | And Jimmy found the weather too balmy | |||||||||||||
| But Georgie took them both by the arm and said, | But Georgie took them both by the arm and said, | |||||||||||||
| "Don't ever disappoint the Army!" | "Don't ever disappoint the Army!" | |||||||||||||
| 2 | CHORUS | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | [Chorus:] | 2 | ||||||||||||
| John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead | John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead | |||||||||||||
| And Georgie was shot for looting | And Georgie was shot for looting | |||||||||||||
| And young men's blood goes on being red | And young men's blood goes on being red | |||||||||||||
| While the Army just goes on ahead recruiting | While the Army just goes on ahead recruiting | |||||||||||||
| 3 | CHORUS | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | [Chorus] | ------------------------------------ | 4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | ------------------------- | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | [Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht/R. Mannheim and J. Willett] | 3 | ||||||||||||
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