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DIRTY GERTIE IK PUERTO RICO Dirty Gertie from Bizerte Roll ze eyes & make ze flirty Fears no chemise & wears no skirty, ViTears zo vail & no night shirty All ze soldats in Bizerte Drink ze toast to Dirty Gertie Was vmn cute kid v/hen she was thirty. Dirty Gertie from Bizerte Savr ze oaptaine & make ze flirty. Captaine tink she verre pretty Lose his watch & lose his shirty^ Call ze generall alerte. Ze gerdarmes look for Dirty Gertie* From' Casablanc to Gulf of Sirte# Has any one here seen Dirty Gertie? "you /J.L" Come all of you from other parts. Both city folks and rural. And listen v/hile I tell you this: The word ,You«all’, is plural. VTQ say "You-all" must come doT.vn,n Or Uve-all* shall lie lonely. We mean a dozen folks, perhaps. And not one person only. If I should say to Hiram Jones For instance, You-o,ll»s lazy; Or, "'iTill you-all lend me your knife? He'd think that I was crazy. jMov; if you'd bo more socio.i:)le And vdth us often mingle, You^d find that on the native tongue, You-all is never single. Don’t think I mean to criticisc. Or act as if I knew all; But-when v/e speak of one alone, "fo-all say *you* like you-all. PRuK O Your eyes are like diamonds, Your teeth are like pearls Your hands arc gracoful svfeot# Your anlcles arc slender, Your hair is in curls jftjid you have the daintiest. feet# I like your coiffure. Your manner demuro Your comploxion so beautifully toned. You have lovely lips (to say nothing of hips) But, Lord, you’re so v/ell chaperoned,*.,. FU¥ - PERIOD My parents told mo not to smoke I donH For listen to a naughty joke, I don*t. They made it clear I mustn’t wink At pretty girls or even think About intoxicating drink I don’t To flirt or dojico is very wrong I don’t* 'Yild youth chase women, wine & song. I don’t I kiss no girls, not even one, I do not know hovr it is done. You wouldn’t think I had much fun I don’t A Sulton at odds with his harem Thot of a vmy ho could ccarom; He caught him* a mouse Set it loose in the house This started the first harom- scarom* SOiffi GUYS GET AS Hi\PPY AS A LARK ON A FS!7 S:;ALLar^S. H U M 0 R E T T £ Student* ”I hear the Board of Trustees is trying to stop?nceking*" Two-Stud "That so? First thing you know they *11 bo trying to make the students stop, too*" Draftee Medico: "Do you think they vdll send overseas?" "Not unless vie are invaded*" me Vfac; "Does this lipstick come off easily? P-X: "Not if you put up a fight," Sargo; Pfc.: S.ire;o; Here’s a telegram from your wife saying you c.re the father of a ton pound boy*" Is that all it says? At the end it says ’Truly yours.’
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