Manley, Morris, Sheet music, 1917

Sheet music, Why the Deuce Do We Care for Kaiser Bill.
Sheet music, Why the Deuce Do We Care for Kaiser Bill.
Description: 
Title: "What the Deuce do we Care for Kaiser Bill" Time Signature: 6/8 Key: G Notations: Moderato
Case Study: 
“Boys from Canada”: The Songs of the First World War
Creator: 
Manley, Morris
Source: 
sheet music
Date: 
1917
Place: Toronto
Publisher: 
Morris Manley
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
WWI, 53
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

Verse 1: The soldiers they were chatting as they left the old canteen, A Laddie said this is the life it’s like a summer’s dream, Just then a shell exploded and ‘twas not so far away, They captain shouted! “Fall in” boys for Fritzy wants to play.
Chorus: Left, right, left, right, on to march we go, To the front line trenches to tease Old Fritz you know, Shoot your guns, drop your bombs, until you get your fill, What the deuce do we care for Kaiser Bill.
Verse 2: Now Percy left his home one day to join the flying corps; He said I’ll make those horrid boys and girls feel very sore; The first time that they took him up, it made him feel so queer, When in the clouds they looped the loop, he yelled out “Whoops, my dear.”
Verse 3: The Kaiser’s beard was turning blue, so he went to get a shave; He waited there about an hour then heard and old man rave! The razor slipped and cut his throat, which made the barbed, vexed. He threw the dead man off the chair and said to Bill “You’re next.”