I Want to Be in Blighty

DESCRIPTION: "I want to be -- I want to be -- I want to be back home in Blighty, From where the Huns are dog-gone glad to pour Scrambled bombs on our butter store." The singer doesn't know how to spell Blighty, but will go there with all speed
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: soldier home
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #48, "I Want to Be in Blighty" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #10773
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Want to Be in Dixie" (tune)
File: NeTT048

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