What Do the Colonels and the Generals Do

DESCRIPTION: "Colonel says that Kaiser William surely was a best, Dirty little job for Jesus." The colonels and generals spend their time figuring out dirty jobs for privates. "Fifty thousand privates died for democracy, Twenty major generals got the D.S.C."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe, pp. 221-223, "What Do the Colonels and the Generals Do" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #27898
File: NiMo221

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