Stand By Your Beds

DESCRIPTION: "Stand by your beds, Here comes the air Vice Marshall, He's got several rings, But he's only got one arsehole."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
KEYWORDS: soldier derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, p. 347, "Stand By Your Beds" (1 text)
Roud #29720
NOTES [26 words]: Said to be to the tune of the bugle call "General Salure." Thus it was a way for the troops to satirize whatever officer they were supposed to salute. - RBW
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File: PSoS247A

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