Our Essex Camp

DESCRIPTION: "Down in our Essex camp, That'e where we get the cramp, Through sleeping in the damp; We're not allowed a lamp." They spend all their time marching. They want to sleep, but soon the sergeant is bawling at them again
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes | camp sleep sergeant
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #40, "Our Essex Camp" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #10781
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Back Home in Tennessee" (tune)
cf. "They Were Happy, Oh! So Happy" (tune)
File: NeTT040

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