Coal Fatigue

DESCRIPTION: "Coal fatigue, coal fatigue, coal fatigue again. Forty tons of coal to be shifted a day.... Grab your pick and shovel; do it at the double." Don't be downhearted. If Kaiser Bill tried this, it would kill him. If you get your dinner, you're a winner
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: soldier work | coal
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #46, "Coal Fatigue" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Here We Are Again" (tune)
NOTES [65 words]: For the difficulties of coaling a ship, see the notes to "Coal Ship Song (III)." That's a naval song, but moving coal wasn't any easier on land!
Incidentally, Kaiser Wilhelm II could never have done this, or many other tasks of the ordinary soldier, even when he was a young man. He had a withered arm which had no strength; there was very little he could do with it except hold a glove. - RBW
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File: NeTT046

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