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Sunshine of Your Smile

Traditional

“Sunshine of Your Smile” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

Traditional: Collected Lyrics Text 288 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
Complete public-domain lyrics

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

Dear Fritz, who hands the blighties out so free,

Please save a nice sweet cushy one for me,

One that will strike me just below the knee,

Six months in blighty, oh how sweet t'would be.

Verse 2

Chorus;—

Verse 3

Give me that shell with pellets nice and round,

Scatter them all but one upon the ground,

Give me that one but let it come a mile

And I will give you the sunshine of my smile.

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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), “Sunshine of Your Smile”

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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