Frontier Ballads

A Collection of Traditional Western Songs
with Lyrics & Illustrations

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	SOLDIER         SONGS
	1/ A KHAKI KICK B ACK there in Washington, people may stare, Easy-chair officers sputter and swear, Bureaucrats legislate — what do we care? Down in the ranks we don't follow the styles; Here's health to the General, Nelson A. Miles! I've been readin' in the papers and I'm feelin' pretty mad At the shabby sort of treatment that a game old soldier's had. And the soldier I'm refern'n' to, who's so surprisin' game, Is Miles, Lieutenant General — I guess you've heard the name? Now, the pointers that a twelve-year duty sergeant hasn't got On the secrets of the Service, are a quite extensive lot; But he may make observations, while a-wearin' out his shoes, Not just in strict acordance with the War Department's views.
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