FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
Frenchy
They called us Yanks and we called them Frogs but what is there in a name?
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Doughboy
We're all of us fightin' the war, the job that we come over for, the rough engineers an' the boys who shift gears on the trucks that come up with munitions
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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67
Berton Braley
The Runner
Of all the jobs in this man's war I'd just as soon steer clear of his
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
Anzacs
Jacques is a peach of a fighter, Tommy's a he-person too, Tony's a regular fellow; nevertheless it is true Anzacs are "our kind of people," closer than all of the rest
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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72
Berton Braley
The Shavetail
To them I'm a "Louie," that's all, they hear me with patience and phlegm, while I -- well, at heart, I just fall in something like worship of them
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
Tommy
Queer about Tommy, we can't get along with him, always in wrong with him, can't seem to fix it
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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76
Berton Braley
Engineers
When the convoy crawls on a long white road striaght to the blazing line, while drivers nod as they guide their load on where the star shells shine
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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78
Berton Braley
The Smokes
Send 'em over in daylight when there's Boches they can see, an' they?ll rush 'em with the butt or bayonet; but at night or in the gray light when the dawn is strugglin' free you can't trust the crazy dinges on a bet!
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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79
Berton Braley
The Regular
I'm one of the Regular Army Men, enlisted before the war when fifteen per was the pay we got an' learned to be soldiers for
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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81
Berton Braley
The Marines
Said the Doughboy, "You Marines made a rep at Chateau-Thierry." Said the Leatherneck -- three wound stripes on his sleeve -- "We have fought in many scenes, an' you fellers make me weary
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Yid Battalion
They took a bunch of Hebrews from New York's East Side they put 'em into khaki and they made 'em drill
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
"Buddy"
What does "Buddy" mean? It's like this; you see all that I can tell is what "Buddy" means to me.
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
"Son Fairy Ann"
War kind of gets a man in time so he just takes things as they come, the smells, the sights, the dust, the slime, the good chow or the rotten slum
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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89
Berton Braley
Knowledge
I had lived softly, trodden pleasant ways, sounded no depths of life, looked on the mere shell of the world, with lazy critic gaze.
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
Fed Up
Advernture's fine to talk about, I'll say, but I have had enough of it in mine, I dreamed about the "glory of the fray" until at last they put me into line
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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93
Berton Braley
The Hidden Things
There's things a fellow talks about to almost anyone, stories he's always reeling out of fighting, work or fun
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
Ambition
The mighty tunes that you stand up to, that throp and peal with a stately beat, are not the sort that I want to do, but the rag whose witchery stirs the feet.
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Lost Buddy
Peace doesn't mean the same to me as it would -- yesterday; me and my buddy's planned to be life pardners, all the way
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Fighting Edge
English and Belgians, Italians and French fought like grim fury in dug-out and trench, more than four years of it -- God, what a spell
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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100
Berton Braley
I'll Tell the World
Two service stripes, two wound stripes, too, upon my sleeve, it's beaucoup war that I've been through
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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102
Berton Braley
Wonderment
Just now I'm thinkin' when I get home, there's nothin' under the sky's blue dome will ever tempt me to go away
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Lesson
Private Dowlie, careless and flip, sloven in uniform, loose of lip
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Question
Came here to fight -- an' we did came her to win -- an' we won; put Mr. Boche on the grid, basted him till he was done
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Two Crosses
The White Cross of Calvary, it leads the world in war to gain the true and perfect love that Jesus suffered for
Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. (1919)
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Berton Braley
The Big Advance
O light your pipe up, Buddy, and fasten on your pack; the footing may be muddy along our forward track