I Like A Military Tune

Written for: Iceland (1942)
Performer: Sammy Kaye Orch., vocal by Joan Merrill & Male Chorus
Lyric: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1942
Original publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation, rights controlled by Mayfair Music Corp.

Verse:

Give me music and I go out of my mind,
Jive or jingle or the classical kind;
Speak of music, incident'lly I find:
I'm partial to a martial air,
A cymbal crash and a trumpet's blare, for;

Chorus:

I like a military tune,
The hip-hooray and the swing of it,
I love the zip and the zing of it;
I'm a sucker for
A drum and bugle corps.
For I like a military tune,
I toss my hat away
When they begin to play:
You'll never get rich,
You son of a gun,
You're in the Army, hey!
There's a tune by Mister Sousa,
Hear the cheering, heads are high;
My it's a lollapalooza
When the Stars and Stripes go by.
I like a military tune,
The yanks are on the march again,
The boys are showing their starch again;
Love is grand but I would just as soon
Thrill to a military tune.