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It's A Long Way To Tipperary

from Still In The War, Boys! by The Crows Of Albion

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The popular wartime song, adopted by the British army to raise morale in the trenches. This version includes the risqué (for the time) additional chorus - but doesn't include the verses. It is assumed that soldiers would be singing along to this on 19th June 1915.
POETRY FORM: Traditional Song

lyrics

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there!

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

credits

from Still In The War, Boys!, released October 3, 2014
Words by Jack Judge, Music by Jack Judge & Harry Williams.
Peter Bedford provided additional vocals on this track.

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