Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning

Album: Yip-Yip-Yaphank (1918)
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  • I've been a soldier quite a while
    And I would like to state
    The life is simply wonderful
    The Army food is great

    I sleep with ninety-seven others in a wooden hut
    I love them all
    They all love me
    It's very lovely but

    Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning
    Oh! How I'd love to remain in bed

    For the hardest blow of all
    Is to hear the bugler call
    Ya gotta get up
    Ya gotta get up
    Ya gotta get up this morning

    Someday I'm going to murder the bugler
    Someday they're going to find him dead

    I'll amputate his reveille
    And step upon it heavily
    And spend the rest of my life in bed

    [alternate lines in 2nd chorus]
    And then I'll get that other pup
    The guy who wakes the bugler up Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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