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G. I. Jive
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- Artist: Johnny Mercer as sung on "Remember the Forties-Boogie Woogie
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Bugle Boy: Music Of the War Years-1943-44"
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- Capitol CDL 57268
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- charted by Mercer at # 11 in 1944
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- competing version by Louis Jordan hit # 1
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- Words and Music by Johnny Mercer
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This is the G. I. Jive
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Man alive
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It starts with the bugler blowin' reveille over your bed when you arrive
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Jack, that's the G. I. Jive
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Roodley-toot
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Jump in your suit
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Make a salute
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Boot!!
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After you wash and dress
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More or less
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You go get your breakfast in a beautiful little caf?they call "The Mess"
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Jack, when you convalesce
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Outta your seat
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Into the street
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Make with the feet
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Reet!!
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If you're a P-V-T, your duty
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Is to salute to L-I-E-U-T
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But if you brush the L-I-E-U-T
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The M-P makes you K-P on the Q-T
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This is the G. I. Jive
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Man alive
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They give you a private tank that features a little device called "fluid drive"
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Jack, after you revive
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Chuck all your junk
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Back in the trunk
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Fall on your bunk
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Clunk!!
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This is the G. I. Jive
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Man alive
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They give you a private tank that features a little device called "fluid drive"
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Jack, if you still survive
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Chuck all your junk
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Back in the trunk
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Fall on your bunk
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Clunk!!
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Soon you're countin' jeeps
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But before you count to five
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Seems you're right back diggin' that G. I. Jive
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G I Jive
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Johnny Mercer |