Posted on 09/12/2021 8:16:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble
We sang patriotic songs in grade school (yes that makes me at higher risk of death from COVID).
I’ve got a couplet stuck in my head from an old war song and even though everything is on the internet, I can’t find it anywhere.
The lines are:
“We did some fancy fighting down in Santiago Bay/And fixed it so Cervera found it hard to get away”
Does anybody here know the song?
The Battle of New Orleans.
Can you hear the drums, Fernando?
The meter reads like it was sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Does that meet your memory?
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Cher sang that in Mamma Mia 2
Interesting. I tried a bit but also could not find yet.
I wanna say that the slurs in this song are not mine, but this was from the Filipino Insurrection, about the same time. And soldiers’ songs are well...often indelicate.
Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos
ln that land of dopy dreams, happy peaceful Philippines,
Where the bolo-man is hiking night and day;
Where Tagalos steal and lie, where Americanos die,
There you hear the soldiers sing this evening lay :
cho: Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos, cross-eyed kakiack ladrones,
Underneath our starry flag, civilize ‘em with a Krag,
And return us to our own beloved homes.
Underneath the nipa thatch, where the skinny chickens scrath,
Only refuge after hiking all day long,
When I lay me down to sleep, slimy lizards o’er me creep,
Then you hear the soldiers sing this evening song:
Social customs there are few, all the ladies smoke and chew.
And the men do things the padres say are wrong.
But the padres cut no ice — for they live on fish and rice—
Where you hear the soldiers sing this evening song:
We sang Damn the Filipinos in the same class.
“Civilize ‘em with a Krag” indeed.
No not the same tune
Low rider by “war”
Its a “War” song...
Rofl...
https://youtu.be/qMkwuz0iXQg
“...The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement
that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet,
led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley,
against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera,
which occurred during the Spanish–American War...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_de_Cuba
It may take a while to find it, but you can try the collection of “Spanish-American War Songs: A Complete Collection of Newspaper Verse During the Recent War with Spain” (926 pages):
https://archive.org/details/spanishamerican00wilcgoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Sounds almost like a spin on “There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”.
Will Father Mulcahy’s “Korean War Song” do?
There’s no one singing war songs now like people used to do
No ‘over there’, no ‘praise the Lord’, no ‘glory hallelu’
Perhaps at last we’ve asked ourselves what we should have asked before:
With the pain and death this madness brings, what were we ever singing for?
The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails,
They were bitten off by whales,
Oh, the monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga.
Chorus:
Oh, we won’t go back to Subic anymore,
Oh, we won’t go back to Subic anymore,
Oh, we won’t go back to Subic
Where they mix our wine with tubig,
Oh, we won’t go back to Subic anymore.
Chorus
Oh, the carabao have no hair in Mindanao,
Oh, the carabao have no hair in Mindanao,
Oh, the carabao have no hair,
Holy smoke! But they are bare,
Oh, the carabao have no hair in Mindanao.
Chorus
Oh, the fishes wear no skirts in Iloilo,
Oh, the fishes wear no skirts in Iloilo,
Oh, the fishes wear no skirts,
But they all have undershirts,
Oh, the fishes wear no skirts in Iloilo.
Chorus
They grow potatoes small in Iloilo,
They grow potatoes small in Iloilo,
They grow potatoes small,
And they eat them skins and all,
They grow potatoes small in Iloilo.
Chorus
Oh, the birdies have no feet in Mariveles,
Oh, the birdies have no feet in Mariveles,
Oh, the birdies have no feet,
They were burned off by the heat,
Oh, the birdies have no feet in Mariveles.
Chorus
Oh, we’ll all go up to China in the spring time,
Oh, we’ll all go up to China in the spring time,
Oh, we’ll hop aboard a liner,
I can think of nothing finer,
Oh, we’ll all go up to China in the spring time.
Chorus
Oh, we’ll all go down to Shanghai in the fall,
Oh, we’ll all go down to Shanghai in the fall,
Oh, we’ll all get down to Shanghai,
Those champagne corks will bang high,
Oh, we’ll all go down to Shanghai in the fall.
Chorus
Oh, we lived ten thousand years in old Chefoo.
Oh, we lived ten thousand years in old Chefoo.
And it didn’t smell like roses,
So we had to hold our noses,
Oh, we lived ten thousand years in old Chefoo.
Oh, the ladies wear no teddies in Manila,
Oh, the ladies wear no teddies in Manila,
Oh, the ladies wear no teddies,
They’re a bunch of ever-readies,
Oh, the ladies wear no teddies in Manila.
Oh, the men they wear no pants on Luzon,
Oh, the men they wear no pants on Luzon,
Oh, the men they wear no pants,
They’re afraid to miss a chance,
Oh, the men they wear no pants on Luzon.
“Remember my name, Maine!”
The next one is the book "Spanish-American War Songs" on Google books.
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