Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

DESCRIPTION: "The other day I chanced to meet, A soldier friend of mine"; he looks fit and healthy after his training, but when asked about his life, the soldier says, "Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning." He hates and envies the bugler who arouses him
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (sheet music published, according to Fuld)
KEYWORDS: soldier nonballad music
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Colonial-Dames-AmericanWarSongs, p. 163, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (1 text)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, p. 39, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 401, "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"
Roud #25947
NOTES [54 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 322, estimates that this was the tenth most popular song in America in 1918, peaking at #3 in November 1918 (#1 for the year being J. Will Callahan and Lee G. Roberts's "Smiles"). - RBW
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