HEROES: In Paris

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...

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