Fred Karno's Army

The words and music for this famous World War I song:

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We are Fred Karno's army,
The ragtime infantry;
We cannot fight, we cannot shoot,
What bleeding use are we?
And when we get to Berlin
We'll hear the Kaiser say,
"Hoch, hoch! Mein Gott, what a bloody rotten lot,
Are the ragtime infantry!"

We are Fred Karno's Army,
The ragtime infantry;
Fred Karno is our Captain,
Charlie Chaplin our O.C.,
And when we get to Berlin
We'll hear the Kaiser say,
"Hoch, hoch! Mein Gott, what a bloody rotten lot,
Are the ragtime infantry!"

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