“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?”
- grandson of WWI vet
Prohibition is the only answer!
;-)
If I had to go through with those soldiers went through, I’d be drunken too!
My grandmother’s cousin — aged 18 — came back from France in pieces. I hope he got a little enjoyment over there before that happened.
No more drunken than the French Army. Probably less, on the whole.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
The saloon.
And sane, moral Christians brand Methodists as heretics.