{"id":1840,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-regular-army-oh"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-regular-army-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-regular-army-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REGULAR ARMY, OH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three years ago, this very day, I went to Governor’s Isle
\nTo stand ferinst the cannon in true military style,
\nThirteen American Dollars each month we surely get,
\nTo carry a gun and a bayonet with a military step.<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nThere’s Sergeant John McCafferty and Corporal Donahue
\nThey make us march up to the crack in gallant Company Q;
\nThe drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go
\nForty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army, Oh.<\/p>\n

We had our choice of going to the army or to jail,
\nOr it’s up the Hudson River with a cop to take a sail;
\nSo we puckered up our courage and with bravery we did go
\nAnd we cursed the day we marched away with the Regular Army, Oh!<\/p>\n

The captain’s name was Murphy, of “decent French descent”
\nSure he knew all the holy words in the Hebrew testament;
\nAnd when he said to Hogan: “Just move your feet a foot,”
\nSure, Hogan jumped a half a mile on Sergeant Riley’s boot.<\/p>\n

The best of all the officers is Second Lieutenant McDuff;
\nOf smoking cigarettes and sleep he never got enough.
\nSays the captain, “All we want of you is to go to Reveille,
\nAnd we’ll let the first sergeant run the company.”<\/p>\n

There’s corns upon me feet, me boy, and bunions on me toes,
\nAnd lugging a gun in the red hot sun puts freckles on me nose
\nAnd if you want a furlough to the captain you do go,
\nAnd he says, “Go to bed and wait till you’re dead in the Regular Army, Oh”<\/p>\n

We went to Arizona for to fight the Indians there;
\nWe were nearly caught bald-headed but they didn’t get our hair
\nWe lay among the ditches in the dirty yellow mud,
\nAnd we never saw an onion, a turnip or a spud.<\/p>\n

We were captured by the Indians and brought ferinst the chafe
\nSays he, “We’ll have an Irish stew,” the dirty Indian thief.
\nOn the telegraphic wire we skipped to Mexico,
\nAnd we blessed the day we marched away from the Regular Army, Oh!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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