Recruiting Parody No. 2

DESCRIPTION: "For we don't want your loving, And we think you're awfully slow To see that we don't want you, So, please, won't you go." The (women?) don't like to hear the (man's love?) songs; they will "boo and hiss" if he sings it again
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: soldier courting rejection
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #20, "Recruiting Parody No. 2" (1 text, tune referenced)
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. 200, "(We don't want your loving)" (1 excerpt)
Roud #10792
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Your King and Country Need You" (tune)
cf. "Your King and Country Want You (We Don't Want to Lose You)" (lyrics)
File: NeTT020

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