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Three years ago, this very day, I went to Govner`s Isle
To stand ferinst the cannon in true military style,
Thirteen American Dollars each month we surely get,
To carry a gun and a bayonet with a military step.
cho: There`s Sergeant John McCafferty and Corp`ral Donahue
They make us march up to the crack in gallant Company Q;
The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that`s the way we go
Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army, Oh.
We had our choice of going to the army or to jail,
Or it`s up the Hudson River with a cop to take a sail;
So we puckered up our courage and with bravery we did go
And we cursed the day we marched away with the Regular Army, Oh!
The captain`s name was Murphy, of `dacint French descint`
Sure he knew all the holy words in the Hebrew testament;
And when he said to Hogan: `Just move your feet a foot,`
Sure, Hogan jumped a half a mile on Sergeant Riley`s boot.
The best of all the officers is Second Lieutenant McDuff;
Of smoking cigarettes and sleep he never got enough.
Says the captain, `All we want of you is to go to Reveille,
And we`ll let the first sergeant run the company.`
There`s corns upon me feet, me boy, and bunions on me toes,
And lugging a gun in the red hot sun puts freckles on me nose
And if you want a furlough to the captain you do go,
And he says, `Go to bed and wait till you`re dead in the Regular
Army, Oh`
We went to Arizona for to fight the Indians there;
We were nearly caught bald-headed but they didn`t get our hair
We lay among the ditches in the dirty yellow mud,
And we never saw an onion, a turnip or a spud.
We were captured by the Indians and brought ferinst the chafe
Says he, `We`ll have an Irish stew,` the dirty Indian thafe.
On the telegraphic wire we skipped to Mexico,
And we blessed the day we marched away from the Regular Army, Oh!
Note: A post-Civil-War Music hall comment on the professional, or
all-volunteer Army that replaced the citizen`s Grand Army of
the Republic at the end of the war. It proved to be a home to
many Irish immigrants. The song was picked up by the army,
and was a popular army song in the late 1800s. RG