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Keep the Huns Retiring

Traditional

“Keep the Huns Retiring” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

Traditional: Collected Lyrics Text 286 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
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This text comes from The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Keep the Huns retiring!

Keep our guns firing!

Keep our airships flying!

Till the Bosche are done!

Keep our bayonets flashing!

Keep our boys a-dashing!

Turn the Germans inside out,

And we'll all go home.

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Written by Traditional

Traditional words. Historical text published in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918), “Keep the Huns Retiring”

The 1918 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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