Children's chant

[neil]

on 1/2/05 11:56 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> I may be able to help you out there, young man.  The 1914-18 version of "I
> Don't Want to Join the Army" (based on an English music-hall tune) was as
> follows:
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> (NOT FOR OFFENDABLE PEOPLE !)
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> I don't want to be a soldier !
> I don't want to go to war !
> I'd rather hang around
> Piccadilly Underground,
> Living on the earnings of a lay-dee ty-pist !
> I don't want a bayonet up my arsehole !
> I don't want my ballocks shot away !
> I'd rather stay in England,
> Merry, merry England,
> And fornicate my fucking life away !

> JL

In the version I know, the lay-dee ty-pist is a high-flown lay-dee.
Neil Crawford