Cannon Song (aka Army Song) Lyrics - Singles - Stan Ridgway

(Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht/Marc Blitzstein) 

Performed by Stan Ridgway and the Fowler Brothers 

John was all present and Jim was all there 

And Georgie was up for promotion 

Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were 

When confronting some heathen commotion 

CHORUS 

The troops live under the cannon's thunder 

FromSind to Cooch Behar 

Moving from place to place 

When they come face to face 

With a different breed of fellow 

Whose skin is black or yellow 

they quick as winking chop them into beefsteak tartar 

Johnny found his whiskey too warm 

And Jimmy found the weather too balmy 

But Georgie took them both by the arm and said, 

"Don't ever disappoint the Army!" 

CHORUS 

John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead 

And Georgie was shot for looting 

And young men's blood goes on being red 

While the Army just goes on ahead recruiting 

CHORUS 

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