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This year we`ve been celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Civil War and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of World War I and the twentieth anniversary of the end of World War II so all in all it`s been a good year for the war buffs and a number of LPs and television specials have come out capitalizing on all this `;nostalgia`; with particular emphasis on the songs of the various wars. I feel that if any songs are going to come out of World War III we`d better start writing them now. I have one here. You might call it a bit of pre-nostalgia. This is the song that some of the boys sang as they went bravely of to World War III.
So long, Mom,
I`m off to drop the bomb,
So don`t wait up for me.
But while you swelter
Down there in your shelter,
You can see me
On your TV.
While we`re attacking frontally,
Watch Brinkally and Huntally,
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust. (Yeah!)
Little Johnny Jones he was a U.S. pilot,
And no shrinking vi`let was he.
He was mighty proud when World War Three was declared,
He wasn`t scared,
No siree!
And this is what he said on
His way to Armageddon:
So long, Mom,
I`m off to drop the bomb,
So don`t wait up for me.
But though I may roam,
I`ll come back to my home,
Although it may be
A pile of debris.