Greetings to the Sergeant

DESCRIPTION: "You've got a kind face, you old bastard, You ought to be bloody well shot: You ought to be tied to a gun-wheel, And there to bloody well rot."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang)
KEYWORDS: soldier punishment
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang, p. 67, "Greetings to the Sergeant" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: John Mullen, _The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain during the First World War_, French edition 2012; English edition, Ashgate, 2015, p. 209, "(You've got a kind face, you old bastard)" (1 excerpt)
Roud #10540
File: BrPa067

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