There Is No Work in the Army

DESCRIPTION: "When leaving dear old Ioway In the first part of the year, My clothes were torn, my feet were bare," so he joined the army. "There is no work in the army; They call it all fagigue." The life of a soldier involves a lot of travel and is still hard
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Dolph, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes travel
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 290-291, "There Is No Work in the Army" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: LDC290

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