Dirty Danny's Digging Deeper Dug-outs

DESCRIPTION: Tongue-twister. "Dirty Danny's digging deeper dugouts, Much deeper dugouts Dirty Danny dug to make a fug. One day he dug a topper, Nut the general came a cropper In that damn deeper dugout Danny dug." "Heavy-handed Hans flys Halberstadters...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: soldier wordplay derivative work pilot
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p. 118, "Dirty Danny's Digging Deeper Dugouts" (1 text, tune referenced)
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 28, "R. F. C Alliterations" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers" (tune, according to Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
NOTES [92 words]: The source tune, ""Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers" (DT SISUSIE) had words by the well-known songwriter R. P. Weston, with music by Hermann Darewski"; it was published in 1914. The original was not as tongue-twisting as most of the parodies, but there were many parodies which tended toward the hyper-alliteration found in this version; I could argue that they are really all one song, in the way something like "The Old Chisholm Trail" has endless verses and no one sings more than a few. Examples can be found on the song's Wikipedia page. - RBW
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File: AWTBW118

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