The Little Marine went over the top,
Par-lay voo!
The Little Marine went over the top,
Par-lay voo!
The little Marine went over the top and bumped his butt on a barrel top
With a rinky-dinky par-lay voooo!
No less than 1001 stanzas, by conservative count, were composed by the A. E. F. and others to a tune which the A. E. F. found British troops singing when they got to France. Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine—a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated. Habitual singers of...