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To: fatima

Cosmoline helps to keep my rifle clean..sung during WWII by those serving in the Pacific Islands.
If anyone knows all the words, please post them.


55 posted on 01/13/2010 5:36:55 PM PST by sockmonkey
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To: sockmonkey; Kathy in Alaska

I don’t see it sockmonkey.Maybe Kathy can find it.I’ll ping her,(((((Hugs))))))


112 posted on 01/13/2010 6:14:11 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fatima; sockmonkey
I looked and looked...no luck, even finding the words.

During Pacific island campaigns in World War II, the United States Marines sang a song about cosmoline. Adapting the popular big-band tune "Tangerine," they would sing "Cosmoline...keeps my rifle clean."

446 posted on 01/14/2010 1:13:00 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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