Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip

DESCRIPTION: "We come from ev'ry quarter, From North, South, East and West, To clear the way to freedom...." "Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, With your hair cut just as short as mine." You see soldiers everywhere; they are "surely looking fine"
AUTHOR: Robert Lloyd (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: soldier war nonballad | World War I
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Silverman-BalladsAndSongsOfWWI, pp. 144-146, "Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V58828
RECORDINGS:
Arthur Fields, "Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" (Paramount 2052, 1918; Okeh 1074, 1919; Victor 18510)
NOTES [94 words]: The sheet music credits this to "Robert Lloyd, Army Song Leader," whatever that means. It was said to be "written around a Fort Niagara song fragment."
I can't help but think that the soldier on the sheet music cover really looks like a girl, not a boy.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 320, estimates that this was the twenty-fifth most popular song in America in 1918, peaking at #4 in July 1918 (#1 for the year being Callahan and Roberts's "Smiles"). - RBW
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