REMEDIALS’ SONG
• One of the features of the H.Q. concert was a song written specially for the show. The music was written by Monty Howard and the words by Arthur Jackson-Thomas. When the pumice dust has settled You will find us hard at work Scrubbing out the Sergeants’ Mess, Or giving quadraceps a jerk, Shoving round a bleeding rifle ’Neath the Major’s gleaming eye, But that pub will see us later Or we’ll know the reason why. £horus: We’re not the kind of roosters For a lot of pious talk, But we’re good enough for Hitler And we’ll make the blighter squawk. Our pals cleaned up the desert And we’re just such meat as they; When we’re pushed round by Nazis, Why, that’ll be the day! For we do a bit of .bludging, Then we do a job or two. Though we like to take it easy When there’s nothing much to do, The. Sergeant-Major hollers So we raise a fearful moan And it’s thirteen days to pay-day And we all are on the bone! MAN TO MAN Morale is just another word for national pride, another term for individual guts. Without it, you might as well lie straight down at the feet of a conqueror. With it, there is no conqueror.
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Arawa Guerilla, Issue 16, 1 July 1943, Page 8
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212REMEDIALS’ SONG Arawa Guerilla, Issue 16, 1 July 1943, Page 8
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